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Vol. XXVI July, 1926 No. 4 


BOSTONIA 


INAUGURATION OF 


Dr. DANIEL L. MARSH 


AS PRESIDENT OF 


BOSTON UNIVERSITY 


Published Quarterly by Boston University 
OCTOBER, JANUARY, APRIL, JULY 





BOSTON UNIVERSITY 


Directory of Officers 


President of the University 
DANIEL L. MARSH, D.D., LL.D. 
688 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 





Presidents Emeritus 
WILLIAM F. WARREN, S.T.D., LL.D. 
WILLIAM E. HUNTINGTON, Ps.D., LL.D. 


President of the Corporation 
Hon. JOHN L. BATES, A.B., LL.D. 
933 Tremont Building, Boston, Mass. 


Treasurer 
E. RAY SPEARE, Pus. B. 
688 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 
Comptroller 
RALPH E. BROWN 
688 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 


Represeniatibes of Departments 


(qraddte Schools, sain een ce nets en ee Dean ARTHUR W. WEYSSE 
College of Laberal Artes oe ye eh ae ae Tue Eprror 
Summer Session and College Extension Courses 

for the College of Liberal Arts ............. PROFESSOR ALEXANDER H. Rice 
College of Business Administration ............. Rosamonp M. Mack 
College of Practical Arts and Letters........... Dean T. LAwRENcE Davis 
school; of: Dheghop ysis ve as oa a she Pats wea HELEN M. Dawg, A.B. '96 
Schoolvobe Wa weiics ao esto oor ies Pep oee aes ears James N. Carter, J.B. '06 
School of Medicines. cree aya eee ey FRANCES JEFFERSON, A.B. '21 
School of ‘Education “i ois Sek > vies Sevava wists Dean ArnTHUR H. WILDE 


School of Religious Education and Social Service .. Mrs. Exrsig P. MALMRERG 


Address all communications to THe Epitor, 675 Boylston Street, Boston, Mass. 


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rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Acts of October 3, 1917, 
authorised on August 15, 1918. 


The administrative offices of Boston University are at 688 Boylston 
Street (corner of Boylston and Exeter Streets and adjoining the Boston 
Public Library). Telephone number is Back Bay 5864. Cable address 
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PRESIDENT Danie, L. Marsu, D.D., LL.D. 


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as Fourth President of 
BOSTON UNIVERSITY 


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HE INAUGURATION of Dr. Danie, L. Marsu as president of 
Boston University took place in Symphony Hall, Boston, on 
Saturday morning, May 15, 1926. The inaugural procession 

including the marshals, President D. L. Marsh, Dr. L. H. Mutrlin, 
Bishop William F. Anderson, the Trustees, the deans, the official guests 
and the delegates from other educational institutions formed in Horti- 
cultural Hall. The procession met, in Symphony Hall, the faculties of 
the University and three hundred representatives of the undergrad- 
uates, chosen by their classmates. 

Two of the former presidents of the University,—Dr. Wuttiam 
Epwarps Huntineton and Dr. Lemus, H. Mur tin, were present at the 
exercises. Dr. Witt1AM F. Warren, the distinguished first president of 
the University was unable to attend but he wrote a salutation which is 
printed in full elsewhere in this issue. 

Following the Inaugural Exercises a luncheon was held at the Hotel 
Somerset. At this luncheon several notable addresses were delivered. 

This issue of Bostonia contains a complete verbatim report of all the 
principal addresses at the Inauguration Service and the Luncheon at the 
Hotel Somerset. 


_ The sincere thanks of the University are due to the Associated Press 
and the daily press of Greater Boston, for their full and accurate reports 
of the proceedings and the many addresses. 

Zion’s Herald, always a staunch friend of the University, devoted its 
issue of Wednesday, May 19, almost entirely to the Inaugural Exercises. 
Notable features of the issue were numerous photographs of leading men 
and women intimately connected with the University at various stages 
of its career, and authoritative articles on the history and present status 
of the various departments of the institution. From this issue we take, 
with permission, the salutations from the three former presidents and the 
two former acting presidents of Boston University to the new President, 
Dr. Daniet L. Marsu. The Editor of Zion’s Herald, Rev. Lewis O. 
Hartman, Pu.D., is a graduate of the School of Theology in the Class 
of 1902 and is a trustee of the University. . 


The thanks of the University are due to the committee of Trustees 


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and Faculty who were responsible for the details of the various exer- 
cises. Every scheduled event occurred at the advertised moment; every 
detail had been so carefully worked out that the entire program was com- 
pleted without uncertainty or confusion. The Committee consisted of 
the following: Chairman, Bishop William F. Anderson; Vice Chairman, 
Mrs. Everett O. Fisk; Secretary, Professor Lyman C. Newell. The other 
members were: Trustees: Mr. George Bramwell Baker, Dr. William E. 
Chenery, Dr. Lewis O. Hartman, Mrs. George E. Henry and Mrs. Horace 
A. Moses; Dean Lucy J. Franklin; Professor Edgar S. Brightman. 


The Boston University Glee Club rendered a greatly appreciated ser- 
vice by leading the singing of the congregation at the Inaugural Exer- 
cises in Symphony Hall. 


All the speeches at the morning and afternoon exercises were of a 
high order and were interspersed with epigrammatic and witty remarks 
which held the close attention of the audience. 


It was a happy thought to select from the great body of undergradu- 
ates a group of 300 representative students. No auditorium in Boston 
could have held the entire enrollment of 11,000 students. 


A notable feature of the inauguration was the broadcasting of the 
installation ceremony. This was sent out on the WBZ wave at 10.20 
A. M. direct from Symphony Hall, Boston, where the exercises were 
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BOSTONIA 


List of Delegates 


ALBION COLLEGE 


REVEREND WALTER HEALY, D.D. 
REVEREND WILLIAM H. SPENCE 


ALFRED UNIVERSITY 


REVEREND WILLIAM HARMAN VAN ALLEN, S.T.D. 


ALLEGHENY COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR W. J. LowstuTeER, Ph.D., Boston University 


AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES 


PROFESSOR ARTHUR E. KENNELLY, Sc.D,, Harvard University 
ProFEssor Norton ADAMS KENT, Ph.D., Boston University 


AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE 
Wits J. Apsot, LL.B. 


AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE 
LH Barey, LUD: 


AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY PROFESSORS 


PROFESSOR HARRY WALTER TYLER, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 
PROFESSOR JOSEPH Mayer, Ph.D., Tufts College 


AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN 


PRESIDENT ADA LouIsE Comstock, LL.D., Radcliffe College 


AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN (Eastern Branch) 


MARGARET G. BLAINE, A.B. 
FANNIE FERN ANDREWS, Ph.D. 


AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY 


JAmEs F. Norris, Ph.D. 
Gustavus J. EssELEN, Jr., Ph.D. 


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AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION 


ProFEessor HARRY WALTER TYLER, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEARNED SOCIETIES 


PROFESSOR FRANK HAMILTON Hankins, Ph.D., Smith College 
PROFESSOR FRED Norris Roprinson, Ph.D., Harvard University 


AMERICAN PHILOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 


PROFESSOR HENRY RUSHTON FarrcLouGH, Ph.D., Litt.D., Stanford University 
PROFESSOR CLIFFORD HERSCHEL Moore, Ph.D., Litt.D., Harvard University 


AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION (Eastern Branch) 


PROFESSOR WILLIAM ERNEST HOCKING, Ph.D., L.H.D., Harvard University 
PROFESSOR HARVEY G. TOWNSEND, Ph.D., Smith College 


AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY 


GEORGE Howarp ParkKER, S.D., Harvard University 


AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 


PROFESSOR WILLIAM McDouGa_t, Harvard University 


AMERICAN-SCANDINAVIAN FOUNDATION 


PROFESSOR WILLIAM HovGAARD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


AMERICAN UNIVERSITY 


CHANCELLOR Lucius CHARLES CLARK, S.T.B., D.D. 
CHANCELLOR-EMERITUS BisHop JOHN W. HAmiLTon, S.T.D., L.L.D. 


AMHERST COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR CLARENCE WILLIS EASTMAN, Ph.D. 


ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN COLLEGES 


PRESIDENT ELLEN Fitz PENDLETON, LL.D., Wellesley College 


AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 


REVEREND CLARENCE W. Dunuam, A.M. 


BAKER UNIVERSITY 
PROFESSOR HAMILTON FRANK HANKINS, Ph.D., Smith College 


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BARNARD COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR JAMES C. EcpBert, Ph.D., Columbia University 


BATES COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT CLIFTON DAGGETT GRAY, Ph.D., LL.D. 
PROFESSOR CLAIRE ELSMERE TURNER, A.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


BOARD OF EDUCATION OF THE METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH 


ABRAM WINEGARDNER Harris, Sc.D., LL.D. 
EDWIN P. Biiss 
ALFRED H. Avery, A.M. 


BOSTON COLLEGE 


REVEREND JAMES H. Do.an, S.J., PRESIDENT 
PROFESSOR RAYMOND E. SuLuivan, A.M., LL.B. 


BOWDOIN COLLEGE 
PRESIDENT KENNETH C. M. Sits, LL.D. 


BROWN UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT WILLIAM HERBERT PERRY FAUNCE, LL.D. 
VICE-PRESIDENT ALBERT Davis MEAD, Ph.D., Sc.D. 
GEORGE F,. Brean, LL.B., A.M. 


CARLETON COLLEGE 
A. Z. ConraD, D.D., Ph.D. 


CARNEGIE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
PROFESSOR R. L. STEINBERGER, A.M., Harvard University 


CLARK UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT WALLACE W. ATwoon, Ph.D. 
Louis N. Witson, Litt.D. 


COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK 
PROFESSOR FELIX FRANKFURTER, LL.B., Harvard University 


COLLEGE OF THE PACIFIC 
RoBErT J. TREVORROW, A.M., D.D. 


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COLLEGE OF PUGET SOUND 
SAMUEL DuPpERTUIS, A.M., Boston University 


COLLEGE OF WILLIAM AND MARY 
IRviING HAMILTON WHITE, A.M. 


COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY 
PROFESSOR JAMES C. EGBERT, Ph.D. 


CORNELL COLLEGE 
Jor MiTcHELL CHApPLeE, A.M., LL.D. 


CORNELL UNIVERSITY 
S. WILEY WAKEMAN, M.E. 


DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY 
PROFESSOR BisHoP CARLETON Hunt, B.B.A. 


DARTMOUTH COLLEGE 
PROFESSOR JAMES P. RICHARDSON, LL.B. 


DEPAUW UNIVERSITY 
PRESIDENT LEMUEL H. Mur tin, LL.D. 


DICKINSON COLLEGE 
REVEREND C, Oscar Forp, D.D. 


DRAKE UNIVERSITY 
DEAN WALTER S. ATHEARN, B.Pd., A.M., LL.D., Boston University 


DREXEL INSTITUTE 
Mies N. CLair 


DUKE UNIVERSITY 
H. Eart Myers, S.T.B. 


EARLHAM COLLEGE 
HALFORD LANCASTER Hoskins, Ph.D., Tufts College 


BOSTONIA 


ELMIRA COLLEGE 
CLARA W. CraAngE, A.M. 


EVANSVILLE COLLEGE 
PRESIDENT ALFRED FRANKLIN HuGHEs, S.T.D. 


GARRETT BIBLICAL INSTITUTE 


PRESIDENT FREDERICK CARL EISELEN, Ph.D., D.D., LL.D. 
THE REVEREND A. VINCENT BENNETT, B.D., Episcopal Theological School 


GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 
PRESIDENT WILLIAM MATHER LEwis, LL.D. 


HAMLINE UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT SAMUEL FLETCHER KERFOOT, D.D., LL.D. 
HENRY HALLAM SAUNDERSON, D.D. 


HARTFORD SEMINARY FOUNDATION 


PRESIDENT W. DouGLas MACKENzIE, D.D., LL.D. 
REVEREND GEORGE R. WELLS, Ph.D. 


HARVARD UNIVERSITY 
PRESIDENT A. LAWRENCE LOWELL, Ph.D., LL.D. 


HAVERFORD COLLEGE 
WALTER S. HINCHMAN 


HOLY CROSS COLLEGE 


REVEREND JOSEPH N. DINAND, S.J., PRESIDENT 
REVEREND FRANCIS X. Downey, S. J., DEAN 


HOWARD UNIVERSITY 
PRESIDENT JAMES STANLEY DURKEE, Ph.D., D.D. 


ILLINOIS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 
PRoFESSOR J. HowArD MUELLER, Ph.D., Harvard University 


INDIANA UNIVERSITY 
W. CourtTNEY MatTox 


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JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY 
ROBERT ERNEST BELKNAP, A.B. 


KANSAS WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 
DEAN T. LAWRENCE Davis, M.B.A., S.C.D., Boston University 


LAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY 
REBEcCA E. ApAms, S.B. 


LAWRENCE COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT HENRY MERRITT WRISTON, Ph.D. 
Ernest A. Hooton, Ph.D., Harvard University 


MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE 
ACTING PRESIDENT EDWARD MorGAN Lewis, A.M. 


MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 
PRESIDENT SAMUEL WESLEY STRATTON, D.Sc., Ph.D., LL.D. 


McKENDREE COLLEGE 
REVEREND FLETCHER L. WEsT, Ph.D. 


MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR WILLIAM SARGENT BURRAGE, Ph.D. 
DEAN ELEANOR SYBIL Ross, A.B. 


MISSOURI WESLEYAN COLLEGE 
PROFESSOR FRANK WESLEY CLELLAND, A.M., Boston University 


MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY 
REVEREND CLARENCE E. HELLENS, S.T.B. 


MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE 
MrriaM F. CARPENTER, A.B. 


MOUNT UNION COLLEGE 


REVEREND JOSEPH M. SHEPLER, S.T.B., D.D. 
PROFESSOR DWIGHT MARION BECK, S.T.B. 


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MUNICIPAL UNIVERSITY OF AKRON 
REVEREND [RvING C. Tomiinson, A.M. 


NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED STATES 
ANNIE CARLTON WOODWARD, B.B.A. 


NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL 
Henry AsBury CurisTIAN, A.M., M.D., LL.D., Harvard University 


NEWTON THEOLOGICAL INSTITUTION 


PROFESSOR WINFRED N. Donovan, D.D. 
PROFESSOR WOODMAN BrapsBury, D.D. 


NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT FRANK P. SPEARE 
VICE-PRESIDENT WILMAN E. ADAMS 


NORTHERN BAPTIST EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY 


REVEREND AUSTEN KENNEDY DEB ots, D.D., LL.D. 
REVEREND ROBERT LEE WEBB, S.T.M., D.D. 


NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY 
PRESIDENT WALTER DILL Scott, Ph.D., LL.D. 


NORWICH UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT CHARLES A. PLUMLEY, LL.D. 
DEAN H. R. Roserts, D.C.L. 


OBERLIN COLLEGE 
REVEREND WILLIAM FREDERICK Bown, D.D. 


OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 
ARTHUR D. Enyart, LL.D., S.T.D. 


OLIVET COLLEGE 
GEORGE F. Forster, Ph.D. 


PENN COLLEGE 
Proressor E. H. STRANAHAN, A.M., Boston University 


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PENNSYLVANIA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN 
PROFESSOR Mary C. McKeg, M.A., Connecticut College 


PHI BETA KAPPA 


WILLIAM COOLIDGE LANE, A.B., Harvard University 


POMONA COLLEGE 


Joun S. MARSHALL, A.B. 


PRINCETON UNIVERSITY 


DEAN WILLIAM FRANCIS Mate, Ph.D. 


RADCLIFFE COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT ADA LouIsE Comstock, LL.D. 
DEAN BERNICE V. Brown, Ph.D. 


RHODE ISLAND STATE COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR FRANK B. MITCHELL 


RICE INSTITUTE 


PRESIDENT EDGAR ODELL LoveETT, Ph.D., LL.D. 


RUTGERS UNIVERSITY 


CHARLES L. Epaar, E.E. 


SIMMONS COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT HENRY LEFAvour, Ph.D., LL.D. 
PROFESSOR ROBERT M. Gay, A.M. 


SIMPSON COLLEGE 
PROFESSOR J. HucH Jackson, M.B.A., C.P.A., Harvard University 


SMITH COLLEGE 


PROFESSOR ELIZABETH DEERING Hanscom, Ph.D. 


STANFORD UNIVERSITY 


ALBERT JOHN HETTINGER 


BOSTONIA 


STATE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA 
DEAN WALTER S. ATHEARN, A.M., LL.D., Boston University 


ST. LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY 


Mrs. EpmMunp A. WHITMAN, A.M. 


SWARTHMORE COLLEGE 


RicHMOND P. MILLER, A.B. 


SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 


CHANCELLOR CHARLES WESLEY Fuint, LL.D. 
REVEREND WILLIAM HARMAN VAN ALLEN, S.T.D. 


TEMPLE UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT CHARLES E. BEury, A.B., LL.D. 
ASSOCIATE PRESIDENT LAURA H. CARNELL, A.B., Litt.D. 


THE BIBLICAL SEMINARY IN NEW YORK 
PROFESSOR WALTER E. BACHMAN, D.R.E. 


TUFTS COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT JOHN A. Cousens, A.B., LL.D. 
DEAN FRANK GEORGE WREN, A.M. 


UNION COLLEGE 
Roy E. ARGERSINGER 


UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 
THE REVEREND PROFESSOR JAMES EVERETT FRAME, D.D. 


UNIVERSIDAD CENTRAL MADRID, ESPANA 
PROFESSOR SALVADOR CoRNEJO, Boston University 


UNIVERSITE DE PARIS, FRANCE 
ALFRED JEANROY 


UNIVERSITY OF BUFFALO 
CHANCELLOR SAMUEL P. Capen, Ph.D., L.H.D. 


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UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 


PROFESSOR RALPH MONROE EATON, Ph.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO 


PROFESSOR KIRTLEY FLETCHER MATHER, Ph.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI 
NATHAN Isaacs, Ph.D., S.J.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF DENVER 


REVEREND HEnrY L. WrisTON, S.T.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 


PRESIDENT DaAviD KINLEY, Ph.D., LL.D. 
CLARENCE H. BLACKALL, A.M. 


UNIVERSITY OF MAINE 
DEAN JAMEs S. STEVENS, LL.D., Litt.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 
PRoFESSOR PAUL H. Hanus, B.S., LL.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA 


PROFESSOR OTTO Knut OLoF Fotin, Ph.D., Sc.D., M.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI 
ARNOLD LEONARD, A.B., LL.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA 
DEAN Roscoe Pounp, Ph.D., LL.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE 


PRESIDENT RALPH DoRN HETzEL, LL.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA 
HucGuH W. OGpEN, A.M., LL.B. 


BOSTONIA 


UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH 
CHANCELLOR JOHN G. BOWMAN 


UNIVERSITY OF PORTO RICO 


Nestor I. VINCENTY-RAMIREz, A.B. 
CHARLES W. St. JoHN, A.M., Boston University 


UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER 
HENRY P. Emerson, A.M., LL.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF ST. ANDREWS, SCOTLAND 


PRESIDENT CHARLES ALEXANDER RICHMOND, D.D., LL.D., Union College 


UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS 
PROFESSOR CHARLES WILSON HACKETT, Ph.D. 


UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO, CANADA 
PROFESSOR ERNEST F. LANGLEY, Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT 
PROFESSOR CARROLL W. DotTeEN, A.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology 


UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 
PROFESSOR ARCHIBALD CARY COOLIDGE, Ph.D., LL.D., Harvard University 


UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON 
KENNETH K. LAanpEs, Ph.D., Wellesley College 


UPPER IOWA UNIVERSITY 
ARLIE V. Bock, A.B., M.D. 


VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY 
PROFESSOR WILLIAM YANDELL ELtiottT, Ph.D., Harvard University 


VASSAR COLLEGE 
PRESIDENT HENRY NOBLE MACCRACKEN, Ph.D. 


WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY 
JOHN WEBSTER Sparco, A.M. 


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WELLESLEY COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT ELLEN Fitz PENDLETON, LL.D. 
PROFESSOR ELizA HALL KENDRICK, Ph.D. 


WELLS COLLEGE 


PRESIDENT KERR D. MACMILLAN, S.T.D. 


WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY 


PRESIDENT JAMES L. McConaucaty, Ph.D. 


WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY 
J. Ray Peck, Ph.B. 


WHEATON COLLEGE 


ACTING PRESIDENT GEORGE THOMAS Smart, A.B., D.D. 
ELLEN EMELINE WEBSTER, B.R.E. 


WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY 
REVEREND PauL H. Doney, A.B., S.T.B. 


YALE UNIVERSITY 


HONORABLE GEORGE A. SANDERSON, A.B., LL.B. 


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The Inaugural Service in Symphony Hall 


The program was as follows: 


HYMN — “Lead On, O King Eternal.” 


BOSTON UNIVERSITY GLEE CLUB 
PROFESSOR JOHN P. MARSHALL, Organist 


Bishop WiLL1aM FRANKLIN ANDERSON, after reading from the 
Scriptures the twenty-eighth chapter of Job, delivered the follow- 
ing Invocation: 


Almighty God, the father of the generations of mankind, the source 
of all wisdom, the fountain of all good, we earnestly seek Thy face and 
favor at this hour. We thank Thee for that hidden path which no fowl 
knoweth and which the vulture’s eye hath not seen, but which the 
spirit of man may find and follow because Thou givest him understand- 
ing through Thy Son whom Thou hast sent to be the Saviour of all. 
We thank Thee for the revelation and experience that this hidden path 
leads to thine own great mind and heart. 

We render hearty thanksgiving for this institution under whose aus- 
pices we have come together this day, for what it has been and for what 
it has done, for what it is, for what it is yet to be and todo. We praise 
Thee for the good men and women who laid its foundations in faith, hope 
and love, and that they builded better than they knew; that sacrifice 
and service were the watchwords of those earlier days. May the 
exercises of this hour deepen and confirm that same spirit in us their 
successors and inheritors. 

We come now to pray for Thine especial blessing upon the new presi- 
dent of Boston University. Do Thou give to his mind the spirit of 
knowledge ; to his will the steadiness begotten of a deep conviction 
of his divine mission, to his judgment a poise and mastery born of 
fixedness on God, to his heart the spirit of a great passionate love 
for God and men. May he lean not unto his own understanding, 
but may he seek ever that wisdom which cometh from above. Under 
his leadership may the ministry of this university to the city, the common- 
wealth, the nation and the world become continually wider and deeper 
like the flow of a mighty river. We pray for those who share with him 
the burdens of his weighty responsibilities. May the trustees be men 
and women of large vision, of worthy educational standards, of real 


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statesmanship, of approved practices in business, of generous philan- 
throphy, of deep and sincere consecration. May the members of the 
several faculties be devout in spirit, having a due sense of their responsi- 
bility in the training of the youth committed to their care, in mental 
fitness, in Christian idealism, in moral character; and may they ever 
exalt in the class-room that truth which makes men free. 

We likewise commend to Thee the students in this university and 
in all institutions of learning. May they all come truly to see that the 
fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and that to depart from evil 
is understanding. May the youth of our land and of all lands speedily 
learn that the supreme good in life is not in wealth, nor in power, nor in 
fame, nor in position, but that the real and abiding values lie in the realm 
of the spirit. And do Thou now graciously vouchsafe to all these interests 
this day and evermore the guidance which Thou alone canst give. And 
unto Thy great name shall be everlasting praises through Jesus Christ 
our Lord. Amen. 


Former Governor Joun L. Bates, president of the Board 
of Trustees of Boston University, delivering the seal and charter 
of the university to Dr. Marsn, said: 


“Fifty-seven years ago a band of generous men actuated by the sole 
desire to serve their fellows, obtained from the Great and General Court 
of Massachusetts the charter that gave them the right to create a univer- 
sity to be called Boston University. Into its foundations these men 
poured the earnings of a lifetime, and upon those foundations they began 
the erection of a structure of helpfulness to men. They built no encir- 
cling walls, but left it open to every approach and declared that no limi- 
tations of race, sex, or religion should ever circumscribe its usefulness. 

“For half a century and more it has grown rapidly until today, meas- 
ured not by wealth, not by imposing buildings, not by broad acres, but 
by the number of lives it is helping to fashion, it is the largest university 
in New England and one of the largest in the world. While the great 
body of its students come from the community, yet, such has been its 
success, that daily there pass in and out of its portals, seekers of know- 
ledge from every nation. It is still young, vigorous, hopeful, with its 
face to the future and with great chapters in its history yet to be written. 

“For the fourth time this university inaugurates a president. Those 
who have served hitherto in that high office have been master builders. 
Their work stands like a great cathedral—imposing, forceful, symmetrical, 
gigantic, but unfinished, waiting for another master builder to take up 


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the plans and make real the entire vision. He who succeeds in such a 
task must be a man of tireless brain and large heart, one who can initiate 
and carry on, one who is stubborn in pursuit of achievement and knows 
no fear.”’ 

Then addressing Dr. Marsh he continued, ‘‘The trustees believe that 
in you they have the man. In searching through the land they found 
that in the busy, virile city of Pittsburgh, even as the mountains stand 
like sentinels raising their heads above that seething city, so you and 
your work towered against the human sky. You are called from a great 
work to a great work. No place of ease awaits you here. There are 
difficult problems to be solved, vast opportunities to be grasped, fate- 
ful battles to be won. You have accepted the challenge. 

“With a profound conviction that under your leadership a great to- 
morrow dawns for this institution, the trustees have charged me form- 
ally to install you in the presidency, and, by virtue of their command, 
I now place in your keeping the charter of the university—its broad and 
deep foundation—and also the seal that attests its far-reaching power 
and authority, and I induct you into the office of President of Boston 
University and confer upon you all the privileges and honors pertaining 
thereto. May your administration be attended by Divine blessing; may 
your service be long, and when the sunset fires shall begin to glow on the 
horizon of your life may you, as you look back, find your greatest reward 
in the consciousness that you have spent yourself in bettering human 
lives and have been a factor in the uplift of mankind.” 

Replying to the Induction Address of Dr. Bates, President 
Mars said: 

Mr. President of the Trustees of Boston University: 

I accept from your hands these symbols of office. This simple cere- 
mony is impressively solemn to me. Your words of confidence, spoken 
on behalf of your fellow members of the Board of Trustees, touch me 
deeply. When I heard your voice calling me to this post, I heard it as 
the call of duty, as the voice of God; and, so hearing it, there was nothing 
for me to do but to accept. 

I have been performing the functions of the office since the first of 
February—nor very long, it is true; but long enough to leave me under 
no illusions as to the exacting character of the work that must be done, 
and the weight of the burdens that must be borne by the president of the 
university. 

I shall expect from the trustees unalloyed loyalty and unfailing sup- 
port, and I know that I shall have it. For those who constitute the 


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board are not the kind of men and women who would call a man to such 
a position as this and then leave him alone and unsupported. 

I shall expect from the community—Boston and all New England— 
financial assistance; for Boston University is in very great need of im- 
proved and enlarged facilities and increased endowment, and I cannot 
believe that men and women to whom God has entrusted money will 
allow an agency of so great service as Boston University to be cramped 
and hindered in its operations by lack of funds. I believe that the pub- 
lic is sympathetic and eager to codperate. 

I regard my associates in the staff of administration and in the fac- 
ulty as coworkers, to be loved, trusted, and leaned upon. 

I come among the students with a feeling of friendliness, warmth, 
sympathy, appreciation, fellowship. 

I look to the alumni for encouragement and help in every undertak- 
ing, believing that their love for Alma Mater and their devotion to her 
best interest will increase with the increasing years. 

Therefore, sir, I accept this office in a mood of optimism, of hopeful- 
ness, of a sense of coworking with the best and lordliest forces, of a con- 
viction of ultimate triumph, despite difficulties. You have just now said 
“May your administration be attended by the divine blessing.”” I thank 
you, sir, for that sentiment, and I earnestly hope and fondly pray that all 
of us may keep in such attitude of mind and condition of soul that God 
can answer that prayer; for it is only in proportion as we have His bles- 
ing that the administration can be a true success. Mr. President, I shall 
do my best to help you and your fellow trustees to realize your ideals for 
Boston University—so help me God ! 


THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS 


After a Choral Response by the Boston University Glee Club 
President Marsu delivered the following Inaugural Address: 


When a captain takes charge of a ship he assumes vast responsibi- 
lities. Unto him much is given, and of him shall much be required. He 
must know maritime law so that he will respect the rights of other ships 
upon the seas, and as far as in him lies render aid to those in need. He 
must understand marine insurance and the laws of clearance for every 
port which he shall touch. He must be able to handle the ship, manage 
the ship’s family, and apply the rules governing the operation of the crew. 
He must know where he is going, and what course to follow to reach his 
port of destination. He should make sure that his gyroscopic compass 


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has not become magnetized by the iron of the vessel, lest its tutored 
needle cause a deflection of the ship and bring it to ruin upon the rocks. 
He should be so well acquainted with the stars that at night-time he can 
find his position, and direct his course aright. He should be expert in 
the use of the radio direction-finder in order that when the stars are hid 
behind the cloud’s blackest frown, he may not lose his way. He must 
be thoroughly familiar with the chart of the channels through which he 
is to guide his ship. He is required to know all about shifting sandbars, 
to keep accurate watch of tides and to be thoroughly familiar with local 
currents and conditions. He must be able to locate the islands, reefs 
and dangerous shoals, and to recognize the lighthouses and bell-buoys 
set up for his guidance. 


I have been asked to captain the good Ship Boston University over 
educational seas. I understand that the Seal and Charter of the Uni- 
versity, given me by the President of the Corporation, are to constitute 
my sailing orders and the chart of the channel through which I am to 
guide the Ship. 


Our port of destination is Unselfish Service-for-the-Sake-of-Others. 
That is the whole symbolism of the Seal of Boston University, which 
you will find pictured on the first cover of the program. It is a circle, 
giving in Latin on its marginal rim the name of the institution and the 
year of its founding, 1869. The entire inner circle is spanned by the 
Holy Cross, floriated, a symbol of the Christian heritage and aims of the 
founders. Central to all is represented in outline the City of Boston, 
with its culmination in the State House dome. The harbor in the fore- 
ground points to the expected service to the whole human world through 
mutual codperation in the highest lines of effort. 

Unselfish Service! Toward that port we will keep this Ship steadily 
headed,—service to the city, the state, the nation and the world; service 
to young men and young women, and to older ones as well; service to 
individuals and to groups and to society; service, unsefish service for 
the sake of others,—and at that port we will aim continuously to deliver 
our cargo. 

There are many today who are disturbed about the cargo. They say 
that every ship upon the high seas of education is overloaded; that the 
cargo has shifted; that we are in danger of capsizing the boat. It is as 
necessary to give attention to the capacity of an eductional ship as to the 
capacity of any other vessel. One hundred years ago today the total 
college enrolment for the entire United States was 6,419. Today there 
are almost twice that number in Boston University alone. In 1869, the 


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year in which this University was founded, the total enrolment in New 
England colleges was 4,208. Today Boston University alone has two 
and one-half times that number. Get the impact of these statistics: in 
1826, just one hundred years ago, the total college enrolment for the 
country was 6,419, in 1869, the year of our founding, it was 55,627; to- 
day it is 726,000. By comparison with other countries the figures are 
still more impressive, for the total number of students enrolled in insti- 
tutions of higher learning in England in proportion to the total popula- 
tion is less than one to a thousand, in France it is two to a thousand, in 
Germany it is slightly over two to a thousand, while in the United States 
it is seven to a thousand. 


Many experienced navigators upon the educational sea are fearful 
lest they shall be forced to land on the flat coast of standardized medio- 
crity a cargo consisting of the quantitative product of fact-crammed 
youth ground out of degree factories and stamped with education in- 
stead of carrying to some worthy port the qualitative product of recog- 
nized talent and superior individual initiative. 


Perhaps we should increase our rate for passage on the high seas of 
education. Possibly we should require a different kind of ticket of em- 
barkation. Perhaps we should demand a more careful viséing of the 
passport. There is a serious maladjustment in our whole educational 
system. Too often the college education is an abrupt break with the 
high school education. This lack of functional unity and continuity of 
the educational process presents the spectacle of a flotilla of nondescript 
craft, covered with unwholesome barnacles, coming up out of stagnant 
waters with a cargo of victims for academic slaughter. Many students 
that enter institutions of higher learning are ill-prepared. Others are 
natively incapable of pursuing exacting college courses. Still others are 
indifferent and lazy. Asa result, intellectual standards are lowered, and 
students made of superior stuff are neglected while the time and atten- 
tion of the teacher are consumed in trying to salvage the unfit. A pro- 
spective student seeking admittance to a university, should present other 
qualifications than merely a desire to go to college. 

Classes should never be permitted to become so large as to make im- 
possible the intimate contact of students with teachers. I like to think 
of the faculty and students together as constituting the crew on our 
educational ship,—the faculty engaged in research and the students 
employed at their task, each group helping the other by association and 
example. Education is the intelligent solving of problems, the mind devel- 
oping in the course of the process. Initiative rests with the student. 


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The development of personality is the important item. The teacher is a 
teacher 77 a class rather than the teacher of a class. Thinking always 
begins with a forked-road situation, with a problem. Knowledge 
is method, ways of doing things, always connected with activity. The 
training for democracy is training im democracy. Training for initia- 
tive, responsibility, freedom, enthusiasm, sacrifice in a great purpose is 
training 77 those very things. To make possible this personal contact 
between professor and student, it is obvious that classes must not be 
allowed to get too large. 

Having considered one side of the problem, let us now look at the 
other. Are we going to deny passage upon the high seas of education 
to ambitious and capable young men and women? You say that we are 
getting too many college graduates for the good of society? If so, what 
is to be our standard of eligibility for enrolment? We are in peril of 
emphasizing credits as though they were tickets of admission to the Uni- 
versity, and of judging a student wholly on his ability to accumulate 
credits and pile them away like units of production in a shoe factory. 
We are in danger of forgetting that a student’s character, purpose and 
spirit are of more worth than his credits, clothes, social position and 
ancestors. 

But is there an immigration law in the country of Culture that pro- 
hibits young men and women from embarking upon this voyage, and has 
the quota already been filled? Has society reached the saturation point? 
I do not believe that there is as much cause for alarm in the situation as 
some leaders seem to think. It is true that enrolments in institutions of 
higher learning have increased by leaps and bounds, but hundreds of 
thousands of students are enrolled in technical institutes and vocational 
schools that only recently have come into existence. Such students, of 
course, do not plan to enter the regular professions followed by the 
graduates of the traditional type of college. 


Moreover, the total number of living graduates of American institu- 
tions of higher education, including colleges of Business Administration, 
Engineering, Mining, and similar schools, is only 1,249,000—which is only 
one per cent. of our total population. About 90,000 will receive degrees 
this year. Let us look the facts squarely in the face: out of a hundred 
of our people one has completed some sort of an education above the 
high school; seven out of a thousand are enrolled in some inst:tution of 
higher learning; this year there will be nine graduates to every eleven 
thousand of population. Are not those critics who fear such figures more 
or less victims of the ancient superstition that a college graduate must 


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have a ‘‘white collar job’? But would it not be wonderful to create a 
sky for the man who does not wear a white collar? It may be that the 
apprehension is due to an instinctive distrust of the masses. I believe 
that we ought to be able so to prepare and select students for our colleges 
and universities that education for the many will not prevent the emerg- 
ence of naturally endowed leaders. If we can do this, the future historian 
of this period will discern leaders as peaks of some sunken continent, jut- 
ting through oblivion’s sea. Furthermore, the arguments in favor of a 
still more widely diffused higher education are greater than those against 
it; for in a democracy, when a people undertake to do their own kingship, 
they assume the responsibilities as well as the privileges of the function. 
Democracy thrives on higher and wider education. America’s best name 
is Opportunity. I think we should go slow about refusing passage to able 
and aspiring youths who seek to embark on our ship over the high seas 
of education. 


The greatest menace confronting any ship upon the turbulent waters 
of education today does not come from overloading, dangerous as that 
is. Itis presented rather by a submerged mountain chain of the crassest 
materialism. Especially is this materialistic conception of life a menacing 
obstruction in the way of any ship headed for the port of unselfish service. 


In philosophy this peril shows itself as positivism, realism, natural- 
ism, which proclaim that there is nothing more to the universe than 
matter and its laws, that everything is completely explainable as a nec- 
essary result of previous physico-chemical conditions. In psychology it 
shows itself as behaviorism or energism, which reduces psychology to a 
branch of biology or zoélogy, and regards biology as nothing but applied 
physics and chemistry. It asserts that man is part of this physical 
world, and nothing more; that a living organism is only a complex system 
of physico-chemical mechanism; that mental phenomena are dependent 
upon material structure; that all behavior springs from desire, and de- 
sire has its source in glandular secretions or chemical action,—that all 
of the thoughts of Plato or Shakespeare are but the products of glandular 
secretions. What glands they must have had! (Laughter.) In reli- 
gion it shows itself as naturalistic humanism, which avowedly considers 
physical life as an end in itself; which evicts the soul with derision and 
regards personal immortality as a metaphysical superstition; which flouts 
the idea of a personal and transcendent God, and recognizes no power 
higher than the collective will of humanity, including the depths of de- 
gradation and the vagaries of self-will. It would have the rising gen- 
eration believe that there is no such thing as ethical knowledge; that 


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there are no standards by which one can decide what sort of conduct is 
right or wrong except as to its consequences in the life of man considered 
as a physical organism; that there is no such thing as a ‘‘virtuous’’ life 
or a “‘sinful”’ life, but only a question of the satisfaction of desires. In 
logic; materialism is analytic rather than synoptic, and in education it 
has only the utility end. 

Upon the rocks and reefs and dangerous shoals of materialism, and 
in its Hell Gates where the tumbled waters are jumbled together, it is 
inevitable that many a life makes shipwreck, and educational systems 
flounder, and I sometimes fear the ship of Christian civilization itself 
will become stranded or go to pieces upon the rocks. The natural result 
of a mechanistic conception of life is a rampant selfishness, which resorts 
to the specious reasoning that for every natural instinct, appetite or 
desire there is some counterpart in nature, and therefore if one desires 
a thing he has a right to get that thing if he can. This gives free rein to 
greed, avariciousness and strong animal passions. In the wake of this 
type of morals we find individual crimes, social injustice, political 
corruption, commercial dishonesty, economic unrighteousness, and 
international fear and hate and strife. 

Whenever you convince a man that he is an animal, and nothing more 
than an animal, he will act like an animal. Whenever you can con- 
vince the world that science has given its verdict in favor of physical 
force and violence and against social justice, you will witness a recru- 
descence of the jungle. 

As I take my place upon the bridge of the good Ship Boston Uni- 
versity, with the endeavor to guide it through these menacing obstruc- 
tions to the port of Unselfish Service-for-the-Sake-of-Others, I consult 
my chart to find out the course we are to follow, and this is what I read 
(I quote from the charter): 

“The clear rents and profits of all the estate, real and personal, 
of which said corporation shall be seized and possessed, shall be ap- 
propriated to the maintenance and endowment of said university, in 
such manner as shall most effectually promote virtue and piety, and 
learning in such of the languages and of the liberal and useful arts 
and sciences, as shall be recommended from time to time by the said 
corporation, they conforming to the will of any donor or donors in 
the application of any estate which may be given, devised or be- 
queathed for any particular object connected with the university.”’ 


Reduced to simplest nautical terms, that paragraph means that our 
course has been clearly defined for us by a lighthouse on one hand called 


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“The Promotion of a Liberal Education”, and a lighthouse on the other 
hand called ‘‘The Promotion of a Useful Education’’, and further on, 
nearer the port, is the range light called “The Promotion of Virtue’, 
and still further on is the blazing beacon called ‘‘The Promotion of 
Piety.”’ 

The chartered equality of ‘‘Liberal’’ and ‘‘Useful’* education should 
save us from running into either one of the two most prevalent dangers 
of education,—the measurement of values of knowledge solely by the 
test of its utility to the individual, and the pursuit of knowledge solely 
for its own sake without reference to its value to anyone at all. 


According to the Charter, Boston University is to teach young men 
and women the useful as well as the liberal arts and sciences. It is to 
teach them facts and principles applicable to their life work. It is no 
longer possible to be an omnibus scholar. The objects of knowledge 
have multiplied beyond the receptive powers of the strongest mind. A 
reasonable guide is found in the Charter’s provision for ‘learning in the 
useful arts and sciences.’’ That accounts for the various Colleges and 
Schools that compose the University. Bodies become deranged, souls 
sick, affairs tangled; and out of these needs arise the learned professions. 
We must keep an eye on the lighthouse of a useful education in order 
that we shall not be guilty of aimless drifting through a maze of subjects 
that have no bearing on life. 

But a worse thing than aimless drifting in the fog is the danger of a 
disastrous wreck upon the rock of utilitarianism. On every hand we see 
educational craft, caught in the rising tide of materialism, headed straight 
in that direction. Evidence of this tendency is seen in secondary schools 
and in colleges, and in professional and technical schools, where the con- 
tent of the curricula is determined largely by its contribution to the 
making of aliving. It is seen in the methods of study, where psychology, 
for instance, is valued in proportion as it enables the student to write an 
advertisement that will yield money, or equips the agent to sell bonds 
more successfully; where history is taught as a political science that will 
be useful to the modern politician; where languages are studied not for 
their cultural values or to furnish the creative imagination with materi- 
als for the reconstruction of an age now dead, but rather for the commer- 
cial advantage which accrues from the ability to transact business in a 
foreign tongue. In this way some educators would formulate the whole 
curriculum, interpreting it altogether in terms of utility. I recognize the 
value of a practical education, and the founders of Boston University 
also recognized that value, otherwise they would not have stipulated in 


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the Charter that the useful languages, arts and sciences were to be taught. 
But I protest against holding to the utilitarian point of view exclusively 
lest we find ourselves evaluating knowledge at the sacrifice of character 
and training practitioners at the expense of principle. 


On the other hand, there are those who insist that knowledge is the 
end in itself and the only end of education. Against this idea also do I 
protest lest we foster that false scholarship that bends itself to the 
teaching of ideas instead of the teaching of men. This point of view, 
when exclusively held, makes for what its holder calls the ‘‘Academic 
mind’’, but which too often is only another name for intellectual snob- 
bery; it engenders aloofness from life, stifles a sense of humor, sours 
the milk of human kindness, breeds detachment from the world of 
action, and glories in a dead formalism and mechanical externality. 


We will not be shut up to the “either or’’ idea. We insist upon the 
“both and.’”’ Education is not etther liberal or useful: it is both liberal 
and useful. There are modern educators who, while admitting the cor- 
rectness of this position, so shift the emphasis in practice as to eliminate 
one or the other. Some advocate a Liberal and useful education. Others 
stand for a liberal and Useful education. Boston University stands for 
a Liberal AND Useful education. We sponsor a scholarship whose results 
are not valued for their own sake nor for the sake of their utility to the 
individual, but for the sake of their service to the community,—a schol- 
arship whose devotees regard themselves as custodians of a sacred trust 
for the benefit of the nation and the whole wide world. Without this 
comprehensive idea we can have neither a true democracy nor a true 
Christianity. The utility idea of education taken alone degenerates into 
selfishness. The education-for-its-own-sake idea taken alone degener- 
ates into aloofness from life. There must be a balance and a blending 
of the two values. We aim at an education that makes a living and 
that makes life worth living. 

The founders of Boston University undoubtedly used the word 
‘liberal’ in its commonly accepted sense as denoting a course of studies 
fitted to broaden and enlighten the mind. We cannot honestly meet the 
conditions of this Charter unless the University concerns itself continu- 
ously and strenuously with the intellectual life of its students. No 
graver danger threatens higher education than subtly assails it when 
well-meaning and influential people advocate the lowering of the stand- 
ards of intellectual life and scholarly work in order that larger numbers 
of ambitious but ill-prepared and incompetent youths and maidens may 
be allowed to slip through easy courses to graduation. To lower educa- 


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tional ideals and standards in any such fashion simply invites disaster 
to the Ship. 

Fidelity to this charting of our course will save us from going aground 
upon the Island of Athletic Sports. The thing that makes this part of the 
channel dangerous to all ships on the educational sea is the fact that the 
Island of Athletics is largely a ‘‘made”’ island. The natural Island of 
Out-Door Sports has permanent and well-defined boundaries, and it thus 
becomes a land mark to keep us in the right course. No hidden bars of 
questionable practice scrape the bottom of our ship when we stop for 
fuel and refreshment at the true Island of Recreation. But the Island 
of Athletics, as known today, is artificial. It is a dump, and inasmuch 
as it is constantly being enlarged by additional cargoes of wasted ener- 
gies, and the waters around it are shallow and full of menacing currents, 
it presents an awful peril to navigators,—especially so since the trade- 
winds of selfish ambition and the tides of materialism sweep straight in 
its direction. 

This dangerous Island of Athletics-for-their-own-Sake is made by 
well-meaning and enthusiastic, but misguided alumni and other friends, 
who, forgetful of the port to which their good Ship Alma Mater is headed, 
dump in its path such rubbish as the pagan worship of physical efficiency; 
the idolization of men who may be inferior in every respect but in brute 
force; the ambition to secure victory at any cost; high-salaried, super- 
organized, unreasonably-specialized coaching systems; a reckless waste 
of money for football while the academic system starves; over partici- 
pation in sports by the few and total neglect of them by the many; un- 
wholesome newspaper publicity featuring individual players; a conniv- 
ing and unethical professionalism in college athletics, and a confusion in 
the minds of youth as to why they go to college at all. 


Having seen ships as good as ours baffled and almost beaten in the 
frenzied waters of this artificial island, I would erect here a bell-buoy to 
ring night and day its warnings upon this wild and wintry ocean shore. 


But there is an island with safe harbors, friendly to navigators of the 
educational sea, and that is the Island of Sane-and-Wholesome-Outdoor- 
Sports. The lighthouse on its shore flashes ‘‘Work! and Play! and Rest! 
and Sleep!”’ as a daily rhythm worked out by nature, interference with 
which is accompanied by a lessening of our physical fitness. Labor unre- 
lieved by recreation produces fatigue, and fatigue produces hate, lawless- 
ness, and despair. Recreation undirected, unregulated, furtive, produces 
vice, degeneration, and helplessness. Play is the natural expression of 
all the inborn instincts. When a man is natural and at his best, it is his 


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spirit that plays. Therefore, I would have athletics not for the sake of 
any championship, or gate-receipts, or drunken and gambling orgies; but, 
fixing responsibility in this matter where it belongs—definitely with the 
University authorities—I would have athletics of the students, by the 
students, for the students,—athletics that would at once stimulate loyalty 
and enthusiasm for the University through contests, and at the same 
time would develop muscular strength, endurance, energy, will-power, 
courage, and self-control, not in a few students only, but in all of them. 
But I would have our students remember that even here on this Island 
of Recreation we are destined for the port of Service, and therefore that 
physical efficiency is not an end in itself; the end is the blessing of others 
through our lives and labors. Hence I would encourage every form of 
play that fosters the spirit of coéperation, friendliness, loyalty, and good 
sportsmanship. 

But there are other landmarks to the Port of Service in addition to 
the lighthouses called ‘‘The Promotion of liberal and useful Education.” 
Our chart says that we are to determine our direction by a range-light 
called ‘““The Promotion of Virtue.” This is a light that flashes with five 
steady gleams: Moral Excellence!—Courage!—Loyalty!—Honesty!— 
Integrity! That range-light leads us beyond the point of policy and 
mere expediency. For virtue is goodness, but not of the whining sort. 
It is goodness that is victorious through trial, temptation and conflict. 
It is honesty tried and proved, especially in those things which go beyond 
the reach of legal requirements. It is integrity which denotes more 
than superficial and convenient honesty. Character is the most impor- 
tant end of education. Character, the life that ‘shines serene in the 
darkness and dread of night,’”’ is worth more to the community than the 
largest factory, bank or store, or any number of academic degrees. 
Mathematics may be used to rob a bank; chemistry may be used to kill; 
penmanship may be used to forge a check; psychology may be used to 
cheat one’s fellows. Knowledge alone is not sufficient. Pilate had know- 
ledge enough when Jesus was brought before him for trial, but he did 
not possess a sense of moral direction. On that memorable occasion he 
seized the word Truth that had been spoken by his royal Prisoner, and 
turned an epigram, flippantly asking: “‘What is Truth?” Imagine a man 
turning an eipgram, and asking, What is Truth? when the real question 
before him was, What is Right? Boston University must stand for know- 
ledge plus moral control. We aim to develop that high character which 
comes from a sympathetic and severe training of the known powers 
under right moral and religious influence. We stand for the promotion of 


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character, which is what one is in the dark or in the spotlight,—that 
keeps one true in the dark and humble in the spotlight. 

According to this chart, our course is further defined by a blazing 
beacon called ‘‘The Promotion of Piety.’’ Piety is a controlling reverence 
toward God. It is religious devoutness, and includes filial honor and 
loyalty to parents, superiors and country. This is not a commitment of 
the University to denominationalism, sectarianism, or even to a narrow 
patriotism, but is it a perpetual reminder of our Christian heritage. 

A “‘liberal and useful education’’ will make a man self-supporting, 
acquaint him with practical measures for comfortable living, prepare him 
for citizenship, make him a man of letters, or a theologian, or a scientist, 
or an artist. But to be truly liberal, according to our Charter, it should 
go further; it should strengthen and broaden his faith in God; make 
keener his appreciation of spiritual realities; furnish him with a just con- 
ception of human life, its needs, possibilities, and obligations; deepen the 
distinction between right and wrong; strengthen his convictions of those 
truths which surround right with the most impressive sanctions. 

The most dangerous shoals of materialism are called ‘The Irrecon- 
cilability of Religion with Science.’’ Over these shoals, waves of shallow 
thinking hiss and foam. But, guided by two spar-buoys, we shall steadily 
keep to the deep channel. The spar-buoy on our right is true religion, 
and the spar-buoy on our left is true science. Boston University was 
founded by devout Methodist laymen under the inspiration of a Metho- 
dist preacher. ‘True to the genius of their faith, they knew, as we know, 
that religion does not consist in forms and ceremonies, or in any mere 
intellectual assent to creedal dogma, but that it is a matter of life and 
experience. Hence they were not afraid to hold their brand of reli- 
gion against the light on any level. Therefore, those devout Methodists 
wrote into the Charter of the University they were founding this definite 
non-sectarian provision: 

“No instructor in said university shall ever be required by the 
trustees to profess any particular religious opinions as a test of office, 
and no student shall be refused admission to, or denied any of the 
privileges, honors or degrees of said university on account of the 
religious opinions which he may entertain; but this section shall not 
apply to the Theological Department of said university.”’ 

Guided by the spar-buoy of vital piety on one hand, and the spar- 
buoy of true science on the other, we shall make our way through these 
dangerous shoals. My thought is well expressed by Herbert Spencer 
in his treatise on ‘‘Education,’’ where he says: 


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‘Doubtless, too, in much of the science that is current, there is 
a pervading spirit of irreligion; but not in that true science which 
has passed beyond the superficial into the profound. So far from 
science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science 
that is irreligious—it is the refusal to study surrounding creation that 
is irreligious. ‘True science and true religion,’ says Professor Huxley 
at the close of a recent course of lectures, ‘are twin sisters, and the 
separation of either from the other is sure to prove the death of both. 
Science prospers exactly in proportion as does religion; and religion 
flourishes in exact proportion to the scientific depth and firmness of 
its basis.’ ”’ 


Guided by such convictions, and characterized by a blending of open- 
mindedness with reverence, Boston University will pursue her onward 
course. We long for Truth as a blind man longs for sight; we will search 
for Truth as a gold-miner goes in quest of the precious metal; we will 
side with Truth, even if by so doing we must ‘‘share her wretched crust, 
ere her cause bring fame and profit, and ’tis prosperous to be just.” 
But we will do this is a spirit of affirmation rather than negation, of 
reverence rather than irreverence. We will be careful of far more than 
the instinctive worship of an awe-struck hour. Our practice must square 
with our profession. We must create such an atmosphere around our 
students as will make them sensitive to life’s tragic grandeur. The best 
way to promote virtue and piety is not by some mighty and phenomenal 
contingency but by loyalty in the midst of ordinary tasks and duties, 
for we know that ‘‘the uncommon life is the child of the common day 
lived in an uncommon way.” 

The compass by which we are to steer our ship is the Cross. I told 
you that the Seal of our University gives our port of destination as ‘‘Un- 
selfish Service-for-the-Sake-of-Others.’”’ But all of the service there 
symbolized rests upon the Holy Cross, which spans the inner circle of 
the Seal from rim to rim. The Cross is the most wonderful subject that 
ever appealed to the intellect, the conscience and the imagination of man- 
kind. I do not refer to the Roman gallows; I mean rather the ‘‘Cross”’ 
which was fashioned in eternity, and whose shadow falls on the disk of 
the whole scheme of things. This Cross condemns a spirit of self-right- 
eousness, even though its wings be crimson-dyed with hues of Paradise. 
It exalts sacrifice for others. As one life-cell is lost that another may 
live and grow; as the blossom is sacrificed for the coming fruit; as the 
mountains are made barren to enrich the valleys; as the soldier gives 
himself for a principle, a reformer for a cause, and a mother for her child, 


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so the Cross symbolizes in solemn isolation the great truth that we also 
ought to lay down our lives for others,—as a sacrifice, a devotion, a con- 
secration. 

The Cross means more than this, infinitely more. But if it ever 
means less to Boston University, we shall know that our magnetic needle 
has been tutored. If, as iron sometimes magnetizes the compass on 
ships sailing the physical seas, gold should ever influence our needle on 
the educational voyage, let us honestly admit in advance that the deflec- 
tion is bound to take us far from our original port of destination. 


Let us, therefore, check our sextant and compass repeatedly by re- 
ference to the stars. The stars by which we are to verify our direction 
are the fundamental principles so faithfully followed by the Founders of 
Boston University and by my predecessors in this office,—Warren, Hunt- 
ington and Murlin,—all of whom kept a clear vision as to the true end 
and aim of all educational endeavor:—the stars to which they looked 
were the unfolding of personality, the cultivation of ideals, the bestowal 
of vision, the clarifying of purpose, the strengthening of will, the devel- 
opment of power. To the fathers, a full-orbed education meant a dis- 
ciplined brain, a cultivated heart, a buoyant religious life, solid attain- 
ments in character, and training for service. 

The driving power that is to take the good Ship Boston University 
across educational seas, and land it safely at the port of Unselfish Ser- 
vice, is Personalism, or Personalistic Idealism. I have described materi- 
alism as the most menacing obstruction in the way of our progress. Over 
against materialism stands this idealism, whose psychology, unlike that 
of the popular behaviorism of the day, is purposive in character; whose 
philosophy is personalistic instead of naturalistic; whose logic is synoptic 
instead of analytic; and whose outcome is theism, not atheism. 


There is an irreconcilable divergence between these two radically 
different conceptions of life. The realist stands alone on the deck of the 
ship at midnight, looking over the deck rail at the waves as they break 
against the side of the ship where the phosphorescence gleams and spark- 
les like frightened fireflies caught in the tangle of a trellised vine,—and 
the breaking waves is all that there is of life to him. But the personalist 
stands on the bridge with chart and light and compass, holding conver- 
sation with the stars that have broken through the purple shallows of 
the night,—and there is purpose and meaning in life for him. Person- 
alism gives us the long view that makes possible the interpretation of the 
facts near at hand. 

The phenomena of life are of such a nature that they simply cannot 


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be explained in physical or chemical terms. Values have no meaning 
apart from purposive psychology. All values, in the last analysis, are 
personal, and only persons can value. This self-transcending self testi- 
fies to a guiding Spirit. It leads us to a belief in a friendly universe. 
All our work on this view obtains a cosmic meaning. Belief in an 
intelligent and purposeful God who knows Himself and knows what He 
is about gives sanity and order to the universe. Belief in a moral, ethi- 
cal, Christlike God who leads us on to all things true and beautiful and 
good, ennobles and enriches life and gives meaning to it. 


Personalism views the whole universe as a society of persons. It takes 
into consideration the sum total of experience. Its sovereign test of every 
experience is, What kind of person will this make? It estimates all things 
in terms of their effects upon persons. By this standard must be judged 
educational processes, industrial relations, social contacts, political move- 
ments, and all the rest. Its dominant principle is the dependence of 
individual culture upon the moral and spiritual values. 

The practical implications of this are amazingly far-reaching. I said 
awhile ago that if a man believes he is an animal, and nothing more than 
an animal, he will act like an animal. Contrariwise, if a man believes 
that he is an immortal child of God he will be sure to play a part in har- 
mony with such a conviction. There is an old proverb that will bear 
repetition today: “Where there is no vision, the people perish’’; or, more 
accurately translated: ‘‘Where there is no revelation the people run 
wild.” 

Let us not be deceived: there is not a ghost of a chance of the world 
moving forward to a better day until it moves on from a selfish indivi- 
dualism to a generous altruism which stimulates the highest develop- 
ment of personality. 

And that is the driving power that I feel throbbing in the old Ship 
Boston University as I take my place upon the bridge. It is a form and 
spirit of activity. Itis willingness to serve. It is the key to the highest 
service. It brings thoughts down from the mountain-top to the tense 
work of the valley. It gives service its true dignity, and glorifies every- 
thing. Itsmites wrong with knuckled faith. Itis faith working through 
love. 

The personalistic view of life gives us mental poise and peace; for no 
matter how sullen the skies may become, or how loudly the cannonading 
of devastating storms may roar, we feel the Great Pilot’s presence with 
His hand upon the storm, as we go sailing on. (Applause, the company 
rising.) 


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The audience led by the Glee Club joined in singing, ‘“O 
Master, Let Me Walk With Thee,”’ after which Reverend GEorGE 
A. Gorpon, D.D., LL.D., delivered the following benediction: 


The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the 
communion of the Holy Spirit, be with us all evermore. Amen. 


The audience was then dismissed with the Recessional. 


Luncheon at the Hotel Somerset 


Following the inauguration ceremonies a reception was held at 
the Hotel Somerset, when the guests and delegates were informally 
presented to President and Mrs. Marsu and Dr. Joun L. Bates, 
President of the Board of Trustees. Luncheon was served in the 
ballroom at half-past one o’clock. ‘The invocation was offered by 
Bishop Joun W. Hamitton of Washington, D. C. 

The Luncheon was under the supervision of Mrs. Lucy JENKINS 
FRANKLIN, University Dean of Women, assisted by: Mrs. J. 
Emmons Briggs, wife of Dr. J. Emmons Briggs of the Board of 
Trustees; Mrs. John P. Sutherland, wife of Dean Emeritus John 
P. Sutherland of the Medical School; Miss Marion A. Wheeler, 
Secretary of the University Dean of Women. 

Following the luncheon, President Marsu, introducing as Toast 
Master Dean W1LL1AM M. WarREN, said: 


It is to me an inexpressible pleasure to meet so many distinguished 
leaders in the educational world and to have present in addition to them 
at this luncheon so many of the distinguished citizens from every field 
of thought and action in Boston and vicinity. I greet you one and all. 
If you who have been in a position similar to the one I have been in 
today will but remember, you will know how keenly I appreciate your 
presence and your words of good will. 

I wish to say a word of appreciation to the committee who have had 
in hand the arrangements for today’s exercises. I shall not name that 
committee. Upon it there have been representatives from the board of 
trustees and from the faculty. They have worked with tireless devotion 
and the success that has attended the exercises up to this hour is due in 


Five PRESIDENTS OF Boston UNIVERSITY. 


Standing (Left to Right): Dr. Lemuel H. Murlin, Bishop William F. Anderson, President Daniel L. Marsh. 
Seated (Left to Right): Dr. William F. Warren, Dr. William E. Huntington. 








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full measure to the fidelity with which they have performed their duties. 
Personally I wish now to express sincere gratitude for what the members 
of that committee have done. 

It is not my’prerogative at this hour to name those who are to partic- 
ipate in the program to follow, only to say this, that I have naturally had 
a part in the selection of these who are on the program, and in every 
instance there was a special reason for having them. Many of them are 
personal friends whose friendship dates back across the years. They 
will know how glad I am to have them present. It is my privilege, how- 
ever, to name one who will participate and who will direct the affairs 
from now on. The first president of Boston University and for thirty- 
four years its informing genius was William Fairfield Warren. (Ap- 
plause.) Dr. Warren is still living, past ninety-three years of age, in good 
health for so many years, alert mentally and physically, able to take his 
constitutional daily, but unable to be with us save in the spirit. The 
committee felt that there were several reasons why we desired to have 
William Marshall Warren as the toastmaster for this luncheon; and the 
first reason, of course, because he is the son of our first president, Dr. 
Warren. In the second place, he is the dean of the deans, speaking now 
in terms of age. Somehow or other they have got to using ‘‘Dean’’ to 
denote age as well as office—a term of—well, sometimes it is long service, 
and sometimes it is seniority, and sometimes it is senility (laughter) 
and sometimes it is simply service. I heard of a case the other day where 
they spoke of a certain scrubwoman in a large office building as being the 
“dean of the scrubwomen.”’ But speaking now only in terms of a period 
of usefulness, of service, in that sense of the word the dean of the deans 
of Boston University is the dean of our College of Liberal Arts, which 
properly stands at the heart of the University, furnishing sufficient depth 
of cultural soil for the departments to find rootage and nourishment. It 
is my very great pleasure to present as the toastmaster for this program 
one whom I have known before my coming here, whom I love and 
respect—Dean Witi1am Marsuaty Warren. (Applause.) 


Dean WarREN began his duties as toastmaster by saying: 


Mr. President and Friends: 

As I have looked out over this company during the hour past, and 
have noted the pleasant conversation going on at table beyond table, and 
as I have noticed on what good terms the guests at this head table have 
found themselves, it has seemed to me that no word of formal welcome 
is in place. To adopt the figure which the President sustained through- 


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out his inaugural address, this large company is as a ship, which in Kip- 
ling’s phrase, has already “found itself,’ I think we all feel that each 
knows the other, that we are one in spirit and in congratulation. 

It is, however, particularly fitting that we should say just a word of 
warm welcome to our new president. With the inauguration of Presi- 
dent Marsh a single circumstance marks a new era in the life of the 
University. We are passing today a point that will hardly be passed 
again. The University has for the first time called to her service in the 
presidency a man younger than herself. (Applause.) 

By intimation of Holy Writ it appears that in right usage, whenever 
a woman—and in this connection, I take it, woman includes an alma 
mater—whenever an alma mater finds a piece of treasure for which she 
has been diligently sweeping, she calls in the neighbors to rejoice with 
her. That is just what the University has done. We have asked you 
to come in and rejoice with us in the finding of this piece of treasure. 
(Applause.) 

The president’s office has been receiving, from short distance and 
from long distance, telegrams, letters, and missives of all kinds, bringing 
wishes of good for the day and for the opening administration. There 
are four of these which have seemed to the committe examples of the 
rest. 

The first is from the Secretary of the Trustees, Mr. Frank W. Kimball, 
who telegraphs from Los Angeles, California: 


‘President Daniel L. Marsh: 
Congratulations and best wishes. Sorry to miss the great day.” 


Another from close at hand: 
‘‘President Daniel L. Marsh, Boston University: 


The faculty and student body of Boston College send congratulations 
with the sincere wish for continued success. 


James H. Dotan, S. J. 


President.” 
(Applause.) 


A telegram which brought much regret to the committee, from 
Bishop F. J. McConne t: 


‘‘Had absolutely imperative official engagement in West Virginia 
last night. Traveled all night and today to get back to Pittsburgh 
in time to reach Boston for services tomorrow, but failed. Bitterly 


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disappointed, but know you will have auspicious inauguration. Have 
deepest confidence for your future.” 


Bishop McConnell has said many quotable and quoted things, but I 
incline to think the most fraught with destiny is that simple statement 
which we all recall, in which he characterized the executive ability of 
our new president—the statement that determined the committee on the 
nomination of a new president to make every effort to learn whether in 
Pittsburgh were not the man that Boston University needed. 


A letter from Senator Witi1am M. Butter addressed to the presi- 
dent: 

“T very keenly regret that it will be impossible for me to leave 
Washington in order to be present at the exercises attending your 
inauguration as president of Boston University. Some time ago I 
wrote the trustees in response to their kind invitation that I would 
make every effort to be present, but at that time I had hopes that | 
Congress would have adjourned, leaving me partly free of legisla- 
tive duties. The legislative situation now is such that I hardly feel 
justified in going away even for a day or two. 

Were I present at Symphony Hall and at the luncheon, I would 
extend my warmest congratulations both to you and to the University 
which has been so fortunate as to obtain your services. My own 
affection for Boston University dates back to the autumn of 1882, 
when the beloved Dean of the Law School accepted a rather frightened 
youngster from New Bedford as a student. Two years later I 

received my degree, an honor I still prize highly. Later in life it 
was my happy privilege to serve for some years as a member of the 
board of trustees. 

I know that you bring to Boston University exceptional qualifi- 
cations for the place you are to fill, and I extend to you my earnest 
wishes for a long and successful administration of its affairs. 


Very sincerely yours, 


(Applause.) Wiii1am M. Butter.” 


When the committee of arrangements, the committee to which Presi- 
dent Marsh has expressed the gratitude which we all feel, commissioned 
me as toastmaster, I turned back to Plato’s ‘‘“Symposium”’ to discover, 
if I could, any hint as to the means that those old symposiarchs of the 
Greeks employed in encouraging after-banquet speakers to restrict them- 
selves to their allotted time. (Laughter.) I am sorry to report that 


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after this research I was forced to conclude that the matter was left—as 
it will be left on this occasion—solely to the speakers’ conscience. 
(Laughter and applause.) 

When former President Murlin used to address the undergraduates 
of the several departments of the University, he never missed an oppor- 
tunity to say that through the peculiar organization of the institution a 
man never graduated out of the University, he always graduated back 
in; for the statutes provide that every degree-holder is eo tpso a member 
of the University Convocation, a body which is recognized as a definite 
constituent of the total organization. 

Now it is a great joy to me to assure Dr. Murlin that this wise pro- 
vision for our alumni holds also for our former presidents. We think of 
him still as of ourown number. He isstill ‘‘President Murlin.”’ I never 
stop to think whether he is president of Boston University or president 
of DePauw; he is simply my old friend President Murlin. 

President Murlin is the man who used to practice all these songs that 
we have been singing since the wartime—all these songs that inculcate 
and encourage smiling. I was going down the subway the other night. 
Two students were near me within earshot. They were discussing one 
or two of the instructors, colleagues of mine in the College of Liberal 
Arts. I could not help hearing what they said, and I did not want to 
help hearing what they said. (Laughter.) They were talking of an 
earnest instructor, a capital fellow, marked by a winsome smile. It does 
you good to see that man smile. One of the boys said to the other: ‘‘Do 
you think So-and-So”’—calling my colleague by name—‘‘Do you think 
that he is married?’”’ The other one said, ‘‘“Naw; married?—with that 
wonderful smile of his?’”” (Laughter.) It is a matter of regret to us all 
that we have not the pleasure of welcoming also Mrs. Murlin, who 
endeared herself to the University as a whole and to wide circles in the 
community at large. 

But, friends, I must set the speakers a good example. It gives me 
great pleasure to present President Murlin,—still a college president 
de facto, de jure, and DePauw. (Laughter and applause.) 


President Murtin, announcing as his theme ‘‘The University 
in the Heart of the City and My Creed”, spoke as follows: 

I am to recite ‘““My Creed.” 

I. I believe in education. I adapt from one of my early mentors in 
education a sentiment as my own, that ‘‘we believe in the possibility of 
universal salvation on earth through education. Man’s needs are the 
demand; God’s power and love are the supply; the teacher is the medi- 


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ator.’’ The college which I now have the privilege of serving was estab- 
lished by American pioneers in the heart of a vast wilderness in the very 
center of our continent. They said, ‘‘Next to the religion of the Son of 
God the light of science is best calculated to lessen human woe and to 
increase the sum of human happiness.’’ These hardy pioneers there 
enthroned the teacher in the very fundamental faith that the teacher is 
mediator between God and man. ‘‘There is but one thing to study;— 
the study of God’s truth and its application to the life of man; here lies 
the path and goal of all educational endeavor.” 


II. I believe in William Fairfield Warren, who, almost ninety years 
ago, a small boy, fired by zeal for God, stirred by the mystery of His 
brooding, feeling that he was too small and insignificant to be noticed 
by the All-Seeing Eye, built a fire on one of the Berkshire hills, on his 
father’s farm, hoping that its flame of beauty and brightness would 
attract the attention of the Father, and perhaps He would also see the 
builder of the fire. I think he must have had great peace and quietness 
of mind and heart from that day to this, for there is no heart or mind 
within my knowledge that is so calm, steadfast and serene. This boy- 
hood act of simple faith prophesied another fire he built on a hill in 
Boston which has been a beacon light to Boston for almost sixty years. 
I am sure God saw that light and I believe God sees it now set upon this 
Boston hill giving light to thousands upon thousands of young people; 
and it will be shining more and more, increasingly, in all the years to 
come. 

III. I believe in Boston. This ‘‘darling town’’ has been peculiarly 
favored by divine blessing. Here began the great experiment of a free, 
self-governing people. From here have come the leadership and inspir- 
ation for every advance among this liberty-loving people. The free 
school, the free church, the free man,—all these drew their life from 
this city. The winds of freedom have ever blown here; a more favorable 
spot in which to live and learn, to work and to worship, cannot be found 
in all the earth. 

IV. I believe in Boston University. Fifteen years ago, in great fear 
and trembling, I took up the work now to be carried forward by my dear 
friend Doctor Marsh. While there was great fear and trembling in my 
heart when I began these labors, there was also a divine content; some 
sense of what Boston University might become upheld me. Already 
physically in the heart of the city, I believed if we could turn her energies 
into the service of the city she would become spiritually what she was 
physically ‘‘in the heart of the city.” The good work thus begun has 


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gone on until now her beautiful spirit permeates the entire life of the 
city. Verily she serves the city and the city respects her, will soon 
love her, and ultimately will serve her. 

V. I believe in that vast company of men who gave out of the rich 
treasures of their hearts, their faith, their love and their loyalty, and by 
their large gifts from limited resources, and their self-sacrificing labors, 
carried this institution through the early years of doubt, difficulty and 
discouragement. Isaac Rich, Lee Claflin, Jacob Sleeper, founders; Alden 
Speare, Edward H. Dunn, Roswell R. Robinson, Chester C. and Augusta 
E. Corbin, and others, associate founders; and dear Doctor Huntington, 
William the Second, as Doctor Warren loves to call him (applause), pour- 
ing his lifeblood flowing through his brain and heart during many years 
of service as dean of the college, then for ten years literally laying his 
life down for the University as its second president; and that company 
of helpers,—Bowne, Lindsay, Latimer, Bennett, Talbot, Buck, Coit, 
Geddes, Taylor, Perrin, William Marshall Warren, and a great host, too 
numerous to mention, who have here loved and labored. These all have 
always nourished the highest ideals and standards for the University. 
Ever they have kept before them the ultimate goal of all their labors. 
Boston University is not “Just another educational institution’’; it has a 
philosophy, a conviction, a goal, a purpose, and a method. 

When God made man, whether by fiat of a single word, in a monent, 
or whether through a long creative process stretching through ages, it 
matters not—God made man. First his body; and then He breathed 
into his nostrils the breath of life, and man, spiritual man, became, in 
God’s own image. And these godly men who have labored here for 
Boston University through all the years past have ever kept before them 
the crowning work of their endeavors, namely, manhood and woman- 
hood. They have not been concerned about making lawyers over in 
our Law School, though they have done illustrious work as revealed in 
the number of honorable men in the law coming from this school; nor 
is Boston University chiefly concerned about making doctors over at the 
School of Medicine, though a finer group of followers of the Great Physi- 
cian it has never been my privilege to know. Nor is Boston University 
feeling it her first duty to turn out preachers from the School of Theol- 
ogy, though the fame and praise of her graduates as preachers, editors 
and bishops is known throughout the ends of the earth; nor has Boston 
University ever believed that the biggest business man is the biggest 
thing in the world, nor has she bent her energies in the College of Business 
Administration to this end. In all her work in all schools—the School 


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of Education, the School of Religious Education and Social Service, the 
Graduate School, the College of Practical Arts and Letters, the College 
of Liberal Arts—Boston University has ever believed that above the 
work carried on by men in business, in the professions, in life, the great- 
est thing in the world is manhood and womanhood. ‘‘Let him first be a 
man”’ is the great end and aim of all our endeavors. Having manhood 
and womanhood first achieved as the result of our educational process, 
we shall give to the world a finer and brighter and richer service through 
qualities of labor in law, medicine, theology, teaching, business, or in 
whatever else our graduates may be engaged, 

VI. I believe in Bishop Anderson. (Applause.) Having given 
almost fourteen years of the prime of my life to this great adventure 
for God, naturally I was wrapped up in its future. What dreams I had, 
what visions, what high hopes, what joy in work and service, and with 
what eagerness I labored! Then after thirteen glorious years in this high 
service suddenly came the solemn admonition that I must no longer run 
this race; that I could no longer carry the load; that I must pass this torch 
to other hands. What is a man to do when he faces a crisis like that? 

When Jesus was facing His Gethsemane, what did He do? First He 
had a conference with a little group of His closest friends, and after they 
had talked it over, hiding nothing from one another, keeping back 
nothing, facing it all calmly and facing it whole, the record reads, 
“They sang a hymn and went out,’’ He to His cross, they to their sorrow 
and humiliation and defeat. There is but one thing for a Christian to 
do when he faces a crisis like that; abide in faith and go out with a song! 

My singing was made more tuneful and triumphant because Bishop 
Anderson took up the task. I placed it in his hands with a great hope. 
He at once sensed the situation and with rare skill guided the affairs of 
the University with great wisdom. His long experience in dealing with 
educational problems, his wide acquaintance among educators, his power 
over men, his gracious courtesy, his fearless courage to do the right—all 
made him a peerless leader. In no experience has he shown greater and 
keener insight than in finding in Doctor Marsh a new President for Boston 
University. His insight was excelled only by his tact and leadership in 
persuading the Board of Trustees to agree with him so that unanimously 
Doctor Marsh was invited to the high office. Boston University can 
never cease to be grateful to Bishop William Franklin Anderson for his 
faithfulness and fidelity. (Applause.) 

VII. I believe in Daniel L. Marsh, President of Boston University! 
Far-sighted clear-headed, warm-hearted, already he has won our confi- 


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dence. Now I must change the figure of speech I have been using all 
along, in view of what he said this morning. Our ship of state after 
passing through more than half a century of more or less troubled waters, 
now has aboard a pilot able-bodied, big-brained, and stout-hearted, who 
knows the ship and the sails, the sea and the chart, the stars and the com- 
pass,—above all, the great Captain. I believe in President Daniel L. 
Marsh! (Applause.) 

VIII. I believe in Boston University. You are in the very heart 
of this dearest and most heartsome city in the world. The new location 
out on the noble Charles places Boston University in the line of develop- 
ment with the march of years. A hundred years from now you will still 
be in the heart of the city of Boston. You are within sight of Bunker 
Hill Monument, which means so much for human liberty and freedom; 
you are in sight of the State House dome under which so much legislation 
has been enacted that looks to human welfare and progress. You are in 
sight of the towers of Trinity, of Old South, and of the Church in Copley 
Square known as Edward Everett Hale’s church. The spirit of these 
great men hovers over the city. All this past is yours, all this tradition 
is incorporated into your very life. You are the breath of its breath and 
the life of its life. You have these thousands of young people, the bright- 
est and best of New England and the West, thronging your halls and out 
into the streets again into the life of the city. In another fifty years 
nothing important can take place in Boston but that the graduates of 
Boston University will have much to say about it, in large measure deter- 
mining the character and quality of the life of that future. Be true. 
Hold steady. Say your prayers and go calmly ahead. The stars in 
their courses will fight for you. The fire kindled by the little boy among 
the hills of Berkshire but presaged the fires of light and beauty and puri- 
fication which Boston University will ever keep burning brighter and 
brighter, adding luster and purity and beauty to this noblest of American 
cities. And as go the American cities, so goes America, and as America 
goes, so goes the world. I congratulate you, Mr. President. I envy you 
with a pure, unselfish and lofty envy the opportunity which is yours. 
For the next twenty-five years I would rather be the president of Boston 
University and live in Brookline than be an archangel and live in heaven! 
(Laughter and applause.) 

At the close of President Muruin's address Dean Warren, 
introducing as the next speaker Mrs. Everett O. Fisk, an alumna 


of the University (A. B. ’83) and a member of the Board of 
Trustees, said: 


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Our next speaker is a graduate and a trustee of the University. If 
I do not say very much about her, you will find the reason in a coven- 
ant which I have entered. To her has been assigned the task of spanning 
almost sixty years within ten minutes; and the time that I wish I might 
spend in describing her qualifications, I have transferred to her account. 
It is a great pleasure to introduce one in whom the devotion of the 
founders of the University and the spirit of those women who consti- 
tuted the best of its early friends are so actively employed — Mrs. 
Everett O. Fisx. (Applause.) 


Mrs. Fisk took as her theme: “The Founders and Early 
Friends of Boston University.’’ She said: 


Mr. Toastmaster, President Marsh, Distinguished Guests, Alumni, and 
Friends of Boston University: 


During the luncheon hour it has been my very great privilege to speak 
with the distinguished guest on my left, Bishop Lawrence, of Cambridge 
across the Charles and with the distinguished guest on my right, Sir 
John Adams of London—to speak of Cambridge, England, where Sir 
John was himself an examiner at the University of London and I a stu- 
dent at Newnham College. We found many mutual friends. When I 
was a student at Newnham College there was one day among those we 
celebrated, known as ‘Commemoration Day.” Upon that day it was 
the custom for the students of the different halls of residence to dine 
together in Clough Hall and in the evening to gather about their beloved 
principal, Miss Anne J. Clough (sister of the poet Arthur Hugh Clough 
and pioneer of higher education in Great Britian) and hear from her the 
story of the founding of the College and of the proud and happy day 
when the University Senate passed the famous act known as the “‘Three 
Graces’’ whereby women were permitted to take the Tripos or Honor 
Examination. 

It is of interest to us today to note that the first steps taken to open 
courses to women in old Cambridge, England, were taken in 1869. Up 
to that time far-seeing and progressive professors gave permission to 
individual women to follow their lectures, and friends of the higher 
education of women provided a residence for such women in Cambridge; 
but it was not until 1883 that the University Senate passed the famous 
“three graces’? an act enabling women to take the Tripos or Honor 
Examination, in Cambridge University. It is interesting to, to note that 
today, Cambridge, which was in the early days a progressive university, 
has not yet granted a degree to women, though Oxford, which in the 


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earlier days was the more conservative, has, since the World War, taken 
that progressive step. 

Now it was in that same year, 1869, on this side of the Atlantic, in 
the New England, and adjoining the New Cambridge, that Boston 
University was granted its charter by the legislature of Massachusetts, 
opening its doors from the beginning to men and women alike. 

The name of our University, given by the legislature of Massachusetts 
forty-seven years after the incorporation of Boston as a city, is no small 
part of our historical heritage. 

The Founders of Boston University have already been named to you. 
It has seemed to me, while they had many noble traits of character in 
common, that each one from his own personality and experience con- 
tributed to the University a distinct gift. 


The first one known publicly to advocate the founding of the Univer- 
sity was the Hon. Lee Claflin, (born 1791), a Massachusetts Senator, a 
friend and generous donor to education, whose munificent gifts made 
possible the founding of Claflin University in Orangeburg, South Caro- 
lina, and whose benefactions to other educational institutions have left 
a monument more lasting than bronze. 


It was his good friend Isaac Rich, a wealthy merchant of Boston, who 
took the decisive step, heading the application for the charter; and dur- 
ing his life and by bequests he gave to Boston University a sum of money, 
greater than any that up to that time, had been given by an American 
to an educational institution. 

The third founder was Jacob Sleeper, mayor of the city, member of 
a governor’s council and a state-appointed overseer—for twelve years of 
Harvard University—a man of deep spiritual life, devoted to religion and 
education. The part Rev. Gilbert Haven, afterward Bishop, Rev. David 
Patten and Rev. J. H. Twombly, played in the founding of the Uni- 
veristy cannot be mathematically measured, but these and other far- 
sighted friends aided much by their encouragement, counsel and 
codperation, and without the influence of any of these three, the whole 
plan might have failed of full fruition. 

The governor who signed the charter was the Hon. William Claflin, 
son of the founder, three times governor of the Commonwealth, for many 
years a representative at Washington, and an original member of the 
corporation, over which he presided from his election in 1872 until his 
death in 1905. He was succeeded by the Hon. Edward H. Dunn, who 
held the office until his death—unfortunately, less than two years. Mr. 
Dunn was a co-founder, and among the other associate founders were the 


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Hon. Alden Speare, who was vice-president of the corporation for thirteen 
years, whose daughter became the wife of a president and whose son is 
today treasurer of Boston University. The names of Chester C. and 
Augusta E. Corbin have been mentioned, as also that of Roswell R. 
Robinson, whose name is borne by the beautiful Memorial Chapel and 
whose daughter is today an honored trustee of Boston University. 
Gov. Bates has been President of the corporation since 1920. 

As there were three men of outstanding influence associated in name 
with the three Founders, so there is one name to be mentioned in asso- 
ciation with Governor Claflin. His business partner and life-time friend, 
Mr. James Aden Woolson, by patient devotion to their joint business, 
made it possible for Governor Claflin to give his time to political duties 
in Boston and Washington as well at to the interest of education. Mr. 
Woolson left a bequest to Harvard University and Boston University, but 
to Harvard, through a Dean—he gave the priceless gift of his daughter. 

The academic organization of Boston University was completed March 
31, 18738, by the election of William Fairfield Warren an original member 
of the corporation, as President of the University. Dr. Warren had been 
Acting President of the Boston Theological Seminary from 1867 to 1878. 
Dr. Warren, having guided the organization of the University, governed 
its policies as President for three decades. It is of interest to note that 
William F. Warren had been the youthful pastor of both Isaac Rich and 
Jacob Sleeper. 

History alone can give a full and just appreciation of the wisdom to 
know, and the courage to do, which characterized our great Founder- 
President. 

In Boston, at that time styled the ‘‘Athens of America’’ and the home 
of literature, and New England proud of her colleges for men,—Amherst, 
Bowdoin and Brown, Dartmouth, Williams and Yale, and with Harvard 
long established across the Charles, it took vision to conceive and faith 
to found, as well as the spirit and courage of the pioneer, to build a 
university co-educational, which should open its doors from the begin- 
ning to bond and free, to rich and poor, no one excepted, regardless of 
sex, color, race or creed. During the administration of President Warren 
our Year Book bore the Latin inscription: 

Servus ac liber, 
Locuples ac pauper, 
Nemo exceptus, . 
Cujusvis sit sexus, 


Quilibet satis 
Habet claritatis. 


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Mr. Toastmaster, among the early friends of Boston University were 
many of the Intellectuals of the day. To name them in the brief time 
we have, without characterization, is like reading the Catalogue of 
Ships. 

I wish we might step back in the history of Boston to the days when 
Summer Street was the fashionable residence for well-known families. We 
should find the home of Jacob Sleeper there, and across the street that 
of Edward Everett, while George Bancroft, Nathaniel Bowditch and 
Daniel Webster had their homes under the rows of horse chestnut trees, 
with the traditional New England front and back yards. 


The Concord philosophers welcomed the new university. I am 
indebted to a recent call with President Warren for many of the facts 
which I am giving now and for many of his memories which he has given 
us verbally and in writing. President Warren tells us that Emerson 
lectured in the halls of Boston University on his seventy-seventh birth- 
day and received in his home in Concord a company of the alumni with 
a friendliness and cordiality never to be forgotten; that Bronson Alcott 
was for ten years an official visitor of the University; that James T. 
Fields was a generous donor to the University in time and thought, 
especially in the latter years of his life. Aldrich and Howells were unmis- 
takable friends. Whittier’s voice was heard in our halls and Oliver 
Wendell Holmes gave the last public reading from his works in Jacob 
Sleeper Hall. One name I specially wish to mention, and that is Thomas 
Wentworth Higginson, who repeatedly in his published works commended 
the new university for the unprecedented justice of its principles and the 
catholicity of its administration. Henry Norman Hudson, the great | 
Shakesperian, was a professor at Boston University. Another professor, 
who was poor in this world’s goods but rich in inventive genius, worked 
with the University during the day and toiled in his laboratory at night 
until he brought forth an invention which has brought to the world both 
untold wealth and blessing—Alexander Graham Bell (applause), a pro- 
fessor at Boston University and honored at Paris in the World Exhibi- 
tion of 1878 with the Grand Prix d’Honneur. 

Among the early friends of Boston University, were many notable 
women. In the first volume of the Year Book I found the name of 
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps as lecturer on Representative Modern Fiction, 
the first woman ever associated with a college faculty in New England. 
At the opening of the School of Medicine an original poem for the 
occasion was read by the author of “The Battle Hymn of the 
Republic.”’ 


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Mrs. Claflin, wife of the governor, taught the genial gift of hospi- 
tality by receiving the men and women of the University in her beauti- 
ful home on Mt. Vernon Street. Mrs. Sleeper Davis, daughter of Jacob 
Sleeper, was the friend of many a student, welcoming them to her home 
with her father, on Ashburton Place. Mrs. Emily Talbot, was the wife 
of Dr. I. Tisdale Talbot, Dean of the Medical School. Mrs. Talbot was 
a great friend of the undergraduates. I remember that she organized 
a group who were taken to Concord and there visited the home of Bronson 
Alcott, who showed us many huge tomes which had been kept as diaries. 
Under the guidance of his delightful daughter, Louisa M. Alcott, we 
. were taken to the home of Ralph Waldo Emerson, and taken to his own 
study. He invited us into his garden and with his own hand plucked 
a flower for each one of us. We also visited the Old Manse, the home 
of Hawthorne. 


Mrs. Talbot sent her two daughters to the new co-educational uni- 
versity, which was contrary to the social traditions of conservative New 
England. After the graduation of her daughter, now the distinguished 
Dean Marion Talbot, Mrs. Talbot gave the first suggestion which united 
university women in an organization known as the Association of Col- 
legiate Alumnae, which after more than forty years has developed into 
the International Federation of University Women. It was these women 
and such women as these who made it possible for the undergraduates to 
hear and meet other distinguished women, such as Abba Gould Woolson, 
Julia Ward Howe and Lucy Stone, whose daughter, Alice Stone Blackwell, 
is with us today and is one of our honored trustees. (Applause.) 


It has been said that all the presidents of Boston University are still 
living. We are very grateful. Our revered nonagenarian President 
Emeritus is in Brookline but is represented here today by his daughter 
and by our toastmaster, as President Marsh has said. Our second Presi- 
dent Emeritus is with us today—‘‘William the Second.’ (Applause.) 
My friend and former President, Dr. Murlin, we welcome home today 
and we shall welcome him annually as he returns from DePauw to his 
permanent New England home on the coast of Maine. (Applause.) 
We are assembled here to do honor to the fourth President of Boston 
University. I must not omit to speak of the wives of these presidents. 
Mrs. Warren I remember very well, and the charm of her radiating per- 
sonality. She held a great influence in home and church and university. 
Mrs. Huntington, the daughter of Alden Speare, became the wife of 
“William the Second.’”’ It has been my privilege to know both these 
presidents’ wives since my undergraduate days. We cannot forget Mrs. 


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Murlin, and associated with her name will ever be remembered her earn- 
est devotion to our first efforts to raise an endowment for the University 
Dean of Women. Now today to this group of noble women we welcome 
Mrs. Marsh. (Applause.) 

Boston University waited long for her University Dean of Women, 
but the helpful friendliness of such women as these whom I have named 
and others whom I have not the time to name did much for the under- 
graduates which today is done by the deans of women throughout the 
country. Weare very proud and happy that we have today a group of 
women of Greater Boston devoted to the highest interests of Boston 
University, who have formed a Women’s Council and are interpreting 
the University to the community. 

Mr. Toastmaster, the three immediate founders of Boston University 
made their three distinct contributions and they established this Uni- 
versity on three basic principles—high standards in scholarship, wise and 
efficient business methods, noble spiritual ideals—making for Christian 
citizenship and Christian character. (Applause.) 


Introducing the next speaker, Honorable Jay R. BENTOoN, an 
alumnus of the University (J. B. 711), and Attorney General of 
Massachusetts, Dean WarREN said: . 


From the earliest days the University has been fortunate in having 
in its administrative councils men of wide knowledge of affairs, men 
active in political life. The governor who signed the university charter 
in May, 1869, was William Claflin. He was not only chairman of the 
board of trustees for many years, but in that critical time of recon- 
struction in our nation’s history, from 1868 to 1872, he was chairman 
of the National Republican Committee. Of former Gov. Bates, who 
is still with us as president of the board, I need say nothing. Gov. 
Fuller, the present governor, is a prized member of our corporation. The 
next speaker represents not only the alumni of the University but this _ 
class of the University’s friends. I have the honor of introducing to you 
the Attorney General of Massachusetts, Jay R. Benton. (Applause.) 


Mr. Benton spoke as follows: 
Mr. Toastmaster, President Marsh, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and 
Gentlemen: 
The American Replublic may fairly claim to have adopted and to 
have followed out Macaulay’s motto: ‘‘The first business of a state is 
the education of its citizens.” Massachusetts was early to recognize the 


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importance of education, and at the very beginning of organized govern- 
ment in this Commonwealth the question was one of the first with which 
the state concerned itself. Among the many causes of pride in the his- 
tory of Massachusetts, not the least of her claims upon our affection and 
loyalty has been the honorable record the Commonwealth has always 
made for herself in this great cause. She has ever been zealous to offer 
to her sons and daughters and to the eager youths coming here from all 
parts of the world every opportunity to prepare themselves for their life 
work. 

In a degree, Massachusetts may be said to be a great schoolhouse for 
the United States. Her academies in her peaceful elm-shaded towns, 
her public schools and her institutions of learning enjoy the highest repu- 
tation throughout the world. 

Our Puritan ancestors brought with them, to these shores, from 
Oxford and Cambridge the scholarship of England, and it was but two 
years after the establishment of the legislature that provision was made 
for the foundation of our most venerable institution—Harvard Uni- 
veristy. In the years that followed other great colleges came into being, 
have prospered and grown strong and become part of the very fibre of the 
State. Among these are Williams, Amherst, Mount Holyoke, Tufts, 
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston College, Holy Cross, 
Wellesley, Smith, Radcliffe, and our own Boston University. 


It was in May, 1869, that Governor Claflin signed the charter of 
Boston University. Its founders, as has been said here this afternoon, 
were three merchants of the city, Isaac Rich, Jacob Sleeper and Lee 
Claflin. By, their wish, the foundations of the university were not laid 
“in the green stillness of the country,” but “in the dark, gray city.” 
Time has proved that the very situation and environments of the institu- 
tion played a most important part in its present-day prosperity and 
standing. Established in the heart of the metropolis, its location deter- 
mined in important respects its character. It could meet the just 
expectations of the public only by becoming a metropolitan university 
of the most advanced and comprehensive type. In the last half century 
its contact with the practical side of life has been immediate and real. 
It has not only aimed to serve the people, but it has been and is itself 
of the people. 

Its charter holds no limitations of creed, and the univeristy has always 
stood upon the broad basis of true merit and moral worth. 


The service that has been rendered during its existence of more than 
half a century would not have been possible had it not been fortunate 


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in having exceptional men of great ability and high ideals at its head. 
The successes of today and those to which we look forward with confi- 
dence for the morrow have been inspired and made possible because of 
the devotion of men who have directed its affairs in the past. 

Its first president was William Fairfield Warren, a man of profound 
scholarship and rich culture; its second, William Edwards Huntington, 
a man who conducted its affairs with fidelity and wisdom; its third 
Lemuel Herbert Murlin, a gentleman honored by all sons of Boston Uni- 
versity, and who during his nearly fourteen years of service established 
five new major departments; and its fourth president Bishop Anderson, 
who has been at the head of its activities during the past year. It is 
due to the tireless effort of the gentlemen who have thus preceded, that 
we are under obligation for the existence of this metropolitan university 
of today. It has a total property and endowment of nearly $6,500,000; 
it has a teaching force of more than 600; its annual budget is $1,500,000, 
and its total student enrollment has reached the extraordinary total 
of 11,000. 

As president of this institution Dr. Marsh this morning has been 
inaugurated. He comes to his new work with a breadth and fulness of 
experience and with distinguished achievement in the field of learning. 
He is equipped to take up the work where he finds it and to lead in the 
future growth and usefulness of the university. He well knows that 
much is demanded of one who exercises presidential functions. He real- 
izes that the education of the young is one of the noblest prerogatives 
that can fall to the lot of man. He knows that to fill such a position one 
must not only be a scholar, an educator, but a man of large sympathies 
for youth. He must know how best to administer the affairs of a great 
educational enterprise. He must be far-sighted and clear in vision. He 
must be able to inspire the faculty and the student body to greater accom- 
plishments. The serious responsibility of the position which Dr. Marsh 
has today officially assumed was admirably stated at an occasion similar 
to this by that learned statesman whose passing on we still mourn, the 
Honorable Henry Cabot Lodge. Senator Lodge expressed the thought 
as follows: 


“Very fortunate is the man to whom it is given to stand at the 
head of a great institution of learning; for to him have come those 
things which are most to be desired by strong men,—work worth 
doing and a great opportunity. He is a builder; he is shaping the 
unknown future. Nothing can be finer than this, for it is far better 
to create than to destroy. To him is confided in part the young life 


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of the country. Presidents and professors grow old and pass away, 
the catalogue lengthens, and great names shine out upon it as the 
stars begin to burn in the heavens after the setting of the sun; history 
and traditions gather as the years flit past, the walls of the buildings 
grow gray and mellow beneath the touch of time; but the college 
itself is ever young. Eternal youth is always there, as the succeed- 
ing generations come and go. To the president of the college falls 
the task of moulding and leading all these young lives marching along 
in unending procession.’ He is their chief, their leader, their captain. 
It is a responsibilty as noble as it is great.” 


It is fitting, therefore, that as you undertake your serious responsi- 
bilities you have a pledge of support from the great body of the alumni 
of Boston University. For fifty-seven years classes have come and gone, 
and thousands have gone forth to do their work in the community, the 
state and the nation. While Boston University is less remarkable in 
antiquity than some of the other institutions of the Commonwealth, it 
has through its graduates an honorable place among the ranks of edu- 
cated men and women. They have made their mark in the practical 
affairs of life, in the professions, in sciences and letters, at the bench and 
bar, in the hospital and the sick room, in the pulpit, in the schoolroom, 
in the halls of government, in the offices of business, and, most important 
of all, through the women of Boston University, in the homes of the 
nation. This is not the time or place to enumerate in detail the high 
achievements of the graduates of Boston University, but as some indi- 
cation of the fact, it is sufficient to say that several have been chief 
executives of the Commonwealth, that over the deliberations of our 
Supreme Judicial Court presides that learned justice, Arthur Prentice 
Rugg, and that in the campaign we are about to enter, the two great 
political parties of this Commonwealth will present as their candidates 
for the high and honorable office of United States senator two gentlemen 
who are both graduates of Boston University, and who have already 
served in the upper branch of Congress. But whatever situation the 
children of the University may occupy, all cherish fond memories of what 
the college did for them in the formative period of their lives. The obli- 
gation is recognized. It is a debt that can never wholly be repaid. We 
all desire to be helpful to those now in authority. With a full assurance 
that our confidence is rightly placed, the alumni pledge to you our fullest 
sympathy and support. We have a sincere belief that the best standards 
and the highest ideals of the University are safe in your hands. 


(Applause.) 


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At the conclusion of Mr. BENnton’s address Bishop ANDERSON 
rose and said: 

Mr. Toastmaster, would you permit a matter of privilege which will 
take but just a moment? Each speaker, including the President of the 
University, has paid tribute to that wonderful man, the first president 
of the University, Dr. William Fairfield Warren. I am perfectly certain 
that I speak what is in the minds and hearts of you all when I suggest 
that this assemblage commission the brilliant toastmaster of this occa- 
sion to bear to his distinguished father our affectionate greetings and the 
assurance of our undying gratitude for his service to the University. 
And if it is your will, if the motion may be seconded, that I may not 
embarrass the toastmaster, I will put it myself. Is the motion seconded? 
(The motion was seconded by many voices.) And if you will adopt the 
motion will you signify it by standing and giving President Warren the 
glad hand. (Applause, all rising.) 


Dean Warren: I will gladly carry this message with which you have 
commissioned me through the initiative of Bishop Anderson. 


As we picked up our programs at the outset we were all pleased to 
find that the invocation was to be voiced by one whose benignity of 
spirit made clear the wisdom of his selection for that office. If when 
the time for the invocation came, he was not here, the fault was not his 
but ours. Bishop Lawrence was invited to appear at one-thirty. At 
one-thirty Bishop Lawrence appeared. But through your kindness in 
complying promptly with the directions of the committee of arrange- 
ments, and through the general efficiency of that committee, the ban- 
quet had begun two minutes, ahead of time. In behalf of the committee 
and of us all, I tender apology to our intended chaplain. 

Bishop Lawrence is not a college president, but let me tell you, there 
is not a college president, Nicholas Murray Butler included (laughter) 
—there is not a college president who does not envy him his generalship 
in bringing adequate endowment to good causes. (Applause.) 

Released from the office of the invocation, Bishop Lawrence has con- 
sented to bring us now a word of greeting. (Applause.) 


Bishop LawrENCE spoke as follows: 


I am glad to say this word of hearty welcome—welcome to you into 
a group of immortals. For has not Mrs. Fisk just shown us that to be 
the president of Boston University means that one will not die? They 
are all alive, and I said to Dr. Huntington a few minutes ago, “Why 


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Doctor, you have not turned a hair in thirty years.’”’ But he responded, 
“Yes, but I have lost a lot of them.’’ (Laughter.) 

In 1869 the University was founded. When Mrs. Fisk spoke of that, 
this occurred to me: In 1869 Charles William Eliot became President of 
Harvard University. In 1869 Phillips Brooks became rector of Trinity 
Church, Boston. Boston University as an institution in the center of 
Boston, President Eliot a leading educator of the country, Phillips 
Brooks, a prophet of religious faith and spiritual emotion. We discover 
how in the uprising of one institution she may be buttressed on many 
sides by the personalities of educators, of preachers, of business men, of 
citizenship of all sorts. The word, therefore, that I say to you, Mr. 
President, is this: You will find here in Boston, a spirit of codperation 
on the part of universities, colleges, churches, citizens, with the alumni 
and with all the traditions of the university, which will be your strong 
support. (Applause.) 


At the conclusion of Bishop Lawrence's address Dean 
WarREN said: 


The next speaker is a representative of the New England colleges. 
He is one of the few former college deans who have been willing, knowing 
all that is implied, to become a college president. The only reason that 
he is not also a democratic senator of the United States is that he main- 
tains loyal residence in that stronghold of republicanism known as the 
State of Maine. It gives me great pleasure to present my friend, Presi- 
dent Kenneth C. M. Sills of Bowdoin College. (Applause.) 


President Sitts spoke as follows: 


Mr. President and Ladies and Gentlemen: 


It is a very high privilege to have been asked to present on this 
happy occasion the greetings and congratulations of the New England 
colleges and schools to your new president, Dr. Marsh. Amongst our 
institutions of learning here in New Enlgand, Boston University occupies 
a unique position. I think it has done more for popular education, for 
adult education, than any other institution in New England. Through 
its various schools it has reached a very large number of people indeed 
and its influence has been widespread. To guide the destinies of that 
institution over the next twenty-five or thirty years requires unusual 
qualities of heart and mind and soul, and I am sure that, having heard 
your president speak to us this morning, you will unite with me in feeling 
he has those requisite qualities. 


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And yet sometimes I feel that on an occasion of inauguration the 
congratulatory note is perhaps at times too deeply struck, and that it 
might not be at all inappropriate for a college president on assuming the 
new duties of his office to ponder somewhat on the medieval theme of 
the mutability of fortune. Even here in staid New England, there might 
be some lessons on that theme. I myself happen to have been president 
of Bowdoin for just eight years, and in that short time presidents have 
come to the following amongst other of our higher institutions of learn- 
ing: University of Maine (twice), Bates, University of Vermont, Middle- 
bury, Norwich; here in your own Commonwealth, Amherst, Amherst 
Agricultural College, Boston College, Clark, Tufts, Radcliffe, Wheaton, 
your own University; down in Connecticut, three institutions, Wesleyan, 
Trinity and Yale. And I sometimes think it is interesting that such 
changes happen in New England, where we have so much appreciation 
for long continued service. It is a typical New England story that you 
have all heard of the citizen at Exeter who rose in town meeting to 
express his opinion and began by saying, “I have only been a citizen of 
Exeter for twenty-six years,’’ and the moderator ruled him out of order 
on the ground that the town of Exeter had no interest in the opinion of 
transients. At one time a gentleman who was stopping at York Harbor 
went around to the church on a Sunday morning and after listening to 
the sermon he inquired of the sexton as he left, ‘“‘Is that your regular 
minister?’’ And the sexton said, ‘‘No, sir, our regular minister is away.”’ 
Said the visitor, ‘““How long has he been away?” The answer was, 
“Forty years.” 

With our conservatism it is perhaps strange that we college presi- 
dents are 

“‘a moving row 
Of magic shadow shapes that come and go.” 


But I do feel that we need to emphasize this fact that in addition to our 
good wishes, President Marsh needs, and needs very greatly, our prayers 
as he enters into what has been so well called “‘the impossible profession.”’ 

I remember on a similar occasion, a few years since, the New England 
college presidents met at Wesleyan and followed out our custom of having 
the youngest president preside at the morning prayers at chapel; after 
leaving the chapel President Lowell remarked to President Hadley, ‘Did 
you notice how admirably our young friend President Ogilby of Trinity 
prayed? He prayed for the alumni, he prayed for the undergraduates, 
he prayed for the trustees, he prayed for the faculty, but he didn’t pray 
for the college presidents.” And Mr. Hadley said, ‘‘That is quite all 


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right; after he has been in office for a few weeks he won’t have time or 
thought to pray for anybody else.’”’ (Laughter.) 

So I do think that we need to emphasize the thought that prayers 
are called for as well as cheers. 

And yet when we have had, as we have had this morning, such a very 
deep and widespread interest in education shown as was shown by the 
attendance and by the general interest in the inaugural ceremonies, I 
think it is a sign that the American people are deeply concerned with 
education. I often and sincerely feel that we are as Americans sometimes 
more interested in education than we are in any other field of thought, 
even religion. Sometimes we make almost of education a religion. And 
while in that over-emphasis there may be dangers, there are also very 
great assets. 

In view of this widespread popular interest in education I hope it 
may not be ungracious to point out at this time that there are two or 
three things that the community in general can do for college education 
to make it still more effective. This first is this—and this is something, 
Mr. President, that you of course realize and will realize more and more 
as you go on in your administration—that we need to improve not only 
the quality of our teaching but the quality of our teachers. If you go 
into a university and watch the boys—I am talking of them particu- 
larly, because I do not think the same thing applies to girls in this par- 
ticular aspect—watch them go back and forth to the various graduate 
schools—into the Law School, into the Medical School, into the School 
of Business Administration—and then pass to those who are studying in 
the graduate schools of arts and sciences or in the schools of education 
—you must have almost a sinking of the heart. Not that there are not 
many admirable men being fitted for school and college positions, for 
there are, and the quality, I am sure, is improving; but that we are not 
sending into the great profession of teaching as we are not sending by 
and large into the great sister profession of the ministry the best that we 
have. If we could for a decade send the pick of our people into the pro- 
fession of teaching, if we could only get it into the minds of men and 
women in general that teaching deserves not simply the tribute of lip 
service but is actually and truly as great a profession as law or business 
or medicine, so that men would be glad to have their sons in that pro- 
fession, we should do a great deal for the intellectual life of America. 
In that profession scholarship is vital and necessary. 

There is one other great service which can be rendered by the uni- 
versity that we need to emphasize at this present day, and that is this, 


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—in the midst of all our present confusion and industrial and other strife, 
if we could only somehow or other get something of the attitude of the 
scholar into our dealings with one another, it would go far toward solv- 
ing our problems. When we are studying the great fields of literature 
and thought and history and science, nothing makes very much differ- 
ence; Homer, Shakespeare and Dante belong to all ages and all races. The 
greatest discoveries of science have nothing to do with whether a man is 
Jew or Gentile, bond or free; they are for all. And if we could only 
transfer from our intellectual training and from our intellectual life some- 
thing of those lessons of tolerance and liberality into our political and 
social and economic life, we should gain a still further service from scholar- 
ship. Those two things among others, I take it—to train teachers, to 
present the teachings of a broad tolerance,—are among the functions of 
a great university. And here in this city the university, sir, over which 
you preside, if it is true to those ideals of service that you so well pointed 
out this morning, if it does nothing else than these two things, will be 
like the shadow of a great rock in a weary land and will be a source of 
refreshment and light not only to the scholar from his desk but to the 
man inthestreet. (Applause.) 


Dean WarREN, in the following felicitous words, introduced 
Sir Joun Apams, Professor Emeritus in London University and 
Special Lecturer at Harvard University: 


President Sills has shown that he holds worthily the distinction of 
being our easternmost standard-bearer for classic education. 

Between the body of Trinity church in Copley Square and the parish 
house at the corner of Boylston Street and Clarendon, is a quiet colon- 
nade. It gives the effect of an Old World cloister. Many of us know 
it well and the hush that prevails beneath its walls. The arches of the 
great church are all round—they are all the Romanesque arch—save one. 
For in this retired passage-way, well back toward the body of the church, 
there is one arch that has in full the stone tracery from a pointed Gothic 
window. Many of us have stood there before it and have read the 
inscription on the bronze plate that explains its presence. It is a bit of 
Old Boston in New Boston. The gray tracery was a gift from that old 
church that we know as St. Botolph’s, in St. Botolph’s town across the sea. 

Now all through this city you will find just that kind of thing. Down 
on State Street—in the city hall—wherever there is a chance, a bit of the 
Old World and, if possible, of Old Boston, has been inserted into the 
fabric of this town. 


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In a city proud of this tradition, what could be more appropriate than 
that in a program of this sort under the auspices of Boston University 
there should be found place for a speaker who brings to us greetings from 
across the sea. It isa pleasure to introduce Sir John Adams, who repre- 
sents in New England the older England that we hail with reverence and 
with affection as our mother land. (Applause.) 


Str Joun Apams, bringing ‘‘Greetings from the Capital of 
Old England to the Capital of New England”’, said: 


Mr. Toastmaster, Ladies and Gentlemen: 

On one occasion John Ruskin challenged an Oxford audience to tell 
him straightaway what a university is. He said, ‘Is it a place where 
everybody goes to learn something, or where some people come to learn 
everything?’ They were not sure. Of course the answer is, a place 
where everybody comes to learn something. In America your univer- 
sities are almost places where people come to learn everything. The 
important point, however, is personal. We are quite clear that a 
university is a body of people and not a series of buildings. In your uni- 
versity here especially you are very much scattered. Your new presi- 
dent pointed out the other evening at a meeting where I was present the 
need for unity, the need for corporate spirit, the need of the umiversitas 
—which literally means, as you know, ‘‘the whole of us.”’ The wniver- 
sitas does not mean a building, but a body of people gathered together 
for a common purpose. 

My University of London is very like your university here. We have 
a great many points in common. We began at once admitting women 
to full privileges in London. And further, we are alike in a peculiar 
respect. Weare both very like heaven. Weare like heaven in the same 
way. Weare like heaven in this way: We are told, you remember, in a 
famous book, “in our Father’s house there are many mansions.” In 
London our university is made up of many mansions, and you here in 
Boston are in the same position. (Laughter.) 

What your president rightly deplored was the lack of joining together 
with one another. You are a scattered people, but, after all, you are a 
great university, greater by far than I had thought on the other side of 
the Atlantic. We knew of you, but we did not know you aright. When 
I go back to England I will speak in a different way of Boston University 
—as a place where I have seen a great spirit, apart altogether from stone 
and lime. In England we are too fond of stone and lime. In America, 
even, you are a little too fond of them. And yet in America we find the 


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finest illustration of the university spirit. It is from you that we get the 
best example of the real university. It is from you that comes the story 
that a university consists of a log with a student at one end and Mark 
Hopkins at the other. With your usual skill in a kind of academic slang, 
you have put into a small phrase like this the whole essence of the matter. 

At this time I am not going to make a speech, but I am going to sit 
down on the one essential point. What you want is a unifying force 
working from within. What you have got today supplies that funda- 
mental need. You have now got in the old classic phrase, “‘the genius 
of the place’’—the “‘genius loci’’; and in the genius loci you find the man 
of whom we are all proud, and to whom we as outsiders look up with the 
highest admiration—Dr. Marsh. (Applause.) 


Dean WarREN, introducing the closing speaker, President 
WaLteR Ditt Scott of Northwestern University, Chicago, said: 


In all the relations of our human life, one of the pleasantest to look 
back upon is that of teacher and taught. We speak swiftly of Socrates, 
Plato, and Aristotle as if those three names were associated merely in 
the smooth lapse of time. But as we read our Diogenes Laertius, and 
find that Plato was taught of Socrates, and that Aristotle, in turn, was 
taught of Plato, there comes a new meaning in that sequence. Our next 
speaker stands not merely as a representative of our remoter neighbors 
in the Middle West, but as the former teacher of our new president. 
I am happy in presenting President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern 
University. (Applause.) 


President Scotr speaking on the theme ‘University Stan- 
dards”’ said: 


Mr. Toastmaster, President Marsh and Friends of Boston Unuversity: 


I rise with a spirit of congratulation. I congratulate the audience 
that every speaker up to date has confined himself to the allotted time. 
I congratulate, however, very much more President Marsh, because not 
a speaker today has devoted himself to admonition and advice to Presi- 
dent Marsh. 

It is a happy occasion. President Marsh wrote me a week ago and 
asked me if I would speak on ‘‘University Standards.” I replied immedi- 
ately that I would. I hadn’t the slightest idea of what he wanted me 
to say, and I rather suspected he hadn’t. However, I must doit. But 
before I do may I do that which no one else has done—may I say some- 
thing about President Marsh? 

If I remember rightly, in the fall of 1904 he came to Northwestern 


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and was taken on trial. We were not at all sure that he was prepared 
to enter the junior year, which he desired at that time to enter. I am 
not sure whether we placed him on probation or not, but there was an 
uncertainty, because the college from which he had come, where he had 
completed his first two years’ work, was not with us an accredited school. 
He came into my class in psychology. I did not know whether a student 
with that preparation ought to be allowed to enter the class, but he was 
accepted. During the two years which he spent with us before he 
received his bachelor’s degree he manifested unusual qualities. When 
I told him in psychology to read from James’ Psychology from page 60 
to page 94, he probably did it—if I ever made such assignments, and I 
am afraid I did. But he did more. He was a wide reader. He was 
an independent thinker. He analyzed the material of the course. Now, 
of course, incidentally, he was awarded Phi Beta Kappa, although we 
have a conscientious scruple against awarding Phi Beta Kappa to any- 
one who has not been with us four years. He took part in the activities, 
in the life not only of our little village of Evanston but of the great city 
of Chicago which lies at the door. At the end of two years he was given 
a bachelor’s degree with highest honors. He desired at that time to 
enter into the graduate school, and that is always a question as to whether 
a student is really fit for graduate work—whether the breadth of view, 
the wide reading, the appreciation of research, is such as to warrant 
entrance into that career. Our doubts were soon dispelled. At the end 
of the year he took his master’s degree with the highest honors which we 
can bestow in connection with that master’s degree. And furthermore 
we found that during those four years he had been on our campus, he 
had spent most of his time in other activities. (Laughter.) He came 
to know the life of a great city and made a special study of the Poles— 
Polacks — who herded together in a great center of the city not far 
removed from Evanston. Debate and oratory were within his field. 
Garrett Theological Seminary is on our campus and is affiliated with 
the University, although the presidents of the two institutions admit 
that the affiliation consists in the fact that the seminary has leased land 
from us for which we charge them a dollar a year but which they have 
never paid. (Laughter.) The affiliation was so close that finally Marsh 
was allowed to take some work in Garrett. The question they raised 
was as to whether he had the heart, the view, the capacity for a pastorate, 
and, if he should complete a theological course, whether he had the adapt- 
ability for that great profession and calling. He selected Boston Uni- 
versity as the alma mater for his theological degree. He came here an 


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unknown man and received his degree in one year. Then the question 
arose as to the sort of field which he could enter and accomplish results. 
He selected the most difficult field in America,.so far as I know—and I 
spent a year there in the smoke of that city, in the Pittsburgh field. I 
was there one year in the city when he was there and I speak knowingly 
of his accomplishments. By rumor I understand that he preached in a 
church there in which no one else was willing to preach, in which there 
was a great opportunity and no salary, and that for nine years he occu- 
pied the pulpit on Sunday nights without salary. He edited a paper; 
he conducted the social and religious activities of the Methodist church 
and the other churches of the city of Pittsburgh. If there was anything 
in Pittsburgh that he didn’t happen to run except the steel mills, I don’t 
know what it was. 


Now I forgot—because I was to speak ten minutes and I was to speak 
on university standards and nine minutes of them are now gone and my 
watch isn’t running—What is it to be a university president? What 
are the university standards which President Marsh has set for himself? 
I listened this morning for my address at this time—What are the stan- 
dards? I want you to notice this. He was discussing the change in 
education in a hundred years, and he said, ‘“Training for is training in.”’ 
Do you remember that sentence? A hundred years ago we were under 
a different standard. We were under the idea of mental discipline, that 
training in one field was training for any field, contradicting this funda- 
mental principle of President Marsh. If you happen to have a good 
teacher for Greek, advise all the students to study Greek. They studied 
Greek to prepare a man for a learned profession or for business or for 
politics. President Marsh’s theory, if I rightly interpret his principle, 
is, training for any field is training in that field. Training will carry 
over only so far as the new field has identical elements and a common 
function. Mathematics will not greatly assist one in playing the violin; 
it may in engineering. Greek may not greatly assist in the study of law, 
but it will in the terminology of medicine. Latin may not greatly assist 
in the study of politics, but it may in the terminology of certain sciences. 
All these subjects are important, but the college president of today must 
know the problems for which the youth of this age is training. 


In a metropolitan university the standard raised by such a man as 
President Marsh is to give that training that fits the individual for the 
problem which he will face in this metropolitan life. That is the stan- 
dard which I believe President Marsh, by his training, by his ability, is 
prepared to meet. 


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Now, secondly, he said: ‘‘Our training should not be for practitioners 
but training in the fundamental principles,’’ having reference primarily 
to our professional schools. A hundred years ago our professional schools 
were so inadequate that we are surprised that the graduates succeeded in 
their callings. If we think of the curriculum of any professional school 
we suspect that the products would be artisans and ours artists; their 
products would enter an occupation if ours enter into a profession. That 
is, the necessity for the breadth of learning which is essential today in all 
our professional schools is a standard which President Marsh has erected 
for this University. 

Now just one word more, because that minute is not quite gone. He 
emphasized the necessity for research—that the faculty was a group of 
men engaged in research. A hundred years ago a university performed 
its function if it carried down the traditions of the past and transmitted 
them to the coming generation, handing the torch of learning from the 
old man to the young, from the seer to the youth. The responsibility 
for the learning then extant was symbolic. But, as President Marsh 
says, today that is not the truth, but the ideal must be the pushing back 
the horizon, the discovery of new truth, the formulation of some new 
principle or the invention of some new application of an old principle. 
In his address this afternoon he had reference to that man who stands 
out preéminent, Professor Bell. And I am surprised that someone did 
not refer in person to Professor Bowne and his formulation of the phil- 
osophy of Personalism, which typifies the task of the great university 
professor. 

President Marsh has set a standard for the faculty, and this faculty 
gives adequate illustration of the point of view that research is increas- 
ing the learning rather than the storing and the transmitting. If wecan 
judge the future by the accomplishments of the past, if we can judge the 
standards, the ideals and the program by the address of the morning, 
then I can congratulate President Marsh, I can congratulate all friends of 
Boston University in the fact that a new member is added to that small 
group of immortals who have honored Boston University. (Applause.) 


The exercises concluded with the following words by Dean 
WARREN: 

It remains only on behalf of the University to thank all our good 
friends who have come in to share our rejoicing. And so concludes the 
formal ceremony of the inauguration of the fourth president of Boston 
University. In the words of the old prayer which has come down to 


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us through twenty-five centuries, I add the solemn wish: “Quod bonum, 
faustum, felixque sit!” 


Abstracts of the Greetincs from former PRESIDENTs and 
AcTING PRESIDENTS OF Boston UNIVERSITY. 


(From Zion’s Herald, Wednesday, May 19, 1926.) 
(By courtesy of the Editor, Dr. LEwis O. HARTMAN) 


Dr. WILLIAM FairRFIELD WARREN 
1873 - 1903 


As first of the three successive presidents of Boston University, I am 
invited to pen a few words appropriate to the inauguration of our Praeses 
the Fourth. Very willingly I accept the courteous invitation. 

This historic day opens a new administration. Of necessity it sep- 
arates an impressive past from an unknown and unknowable future. As 
we cannot read the future, it is wise to turn our thoughts to the past. 

In the year of my birth President Wilbur Fisk graduated his first class 
at Wesleyan. As I saw the light of day in March, I was in time to count 
myself a contemporary of the entire class of six. Twenty years later 
Wilbur Fisk’s university rashly pronounced me a bachelor of arts, and 
sixteen years after that I was called to write the charter of Boston 
University, and to assume the duties of its presidency. 

Now, then, has dawned the day of the fourth president of Boston Uni- 
versity. Wonderful was the record of the second administration; not 
less so the record of the third. Eighteen years ago this fourth president 
was a student in Boston University—a student in my own class in ‘“The 
Religions of the World, and the World-Religion.”’ His record asa stu- 
dent and since justifies my confidence that his achievements in the pres- 
idency will be all that we hope. I feel no call to charge him to fidelity. 
He is daily in touch with an invisible Master, whose honor is bound up 
with his own. 


Dr. WILLIAM Epwarps HunTINGTON 
1903 - 1911 


The man and the opportunity have auspiciously met as President 
Daniel L. Marsh has formally accepted the presidency of Boston Uni- 
versity. Salutations are now in order, especially from those who have 
in turn occupied the “perilous seat,”’ taken voluntary retirement and still 


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live! These all have had their day, and are glad that into their labors 
another now enters, well equipped, eagerly looking forward to the field 
of action. A great university needs a wise administration. It is a com- 
plicated organism, and like a machine will not run itself. Neither can 
there be divided authority in controlling its operation; the one man whose 
hand is on the wheel must be held responsible. President Marsh, we 
believe, has the qualifications for the task. The mechanism of the uni- 
versity is an organized assemblage of text-books and libraries, labora- 
tories, apparatus, and lectures, students, teachers, and graduates. It 
is an organism whose function it is to stir and train the intellectual life 
of youth, and has a momentum of its own according to its traditions, 
genius, aims. Wisely administered, it is of measureless service to the 
community, and to the world of human life. 

Boston University has in its first half-century of growth formed some 
worthy traditions, by its situation and environment has won its name 
and its individual characteristics, and has held steadfastly to the main 
purposes in the minds of its founders. It holdsin veneration the Hellenic 
and the Roman cultures—in their philosophy, literature, art, and law; 
but as the tree honors its own roots by the leaves and fruit of its branches, 
so modern education, as conceived by this university, seeks to show some 
of the richness that comes from those ancient sources that are still vital, 
avoiding, however, a medieval subservience to outgrown methods in 
pedagogy. 

All hail to President Marsh, as he takes the torch of leadership, and 
carries on! 

| Dr. Lemuet Hersert Murtin 
1911 - 1924 


My dear Dr. Marsh: Greetings on the eve of your inauguration as 
president of Boston University. Fifteen years ago, in great fear and 
trembling, but in confident trust, I stood where you now stand. I 
found immense opportunities, and soon innumerable friends who gave 
me unstintedly of their labor and love, their sympathy and prayers, 
without which I could have accomplished little. 

After almost fourteen years of joyous and glad service I suddenly 
discovered that I had gone beyond my strength and must yield to others 
the high privilege I enjoyed. It was a grave and sad crisis in my life. 
It seemed to me, however, that to try to go on would be disastrous to me 
and most hurtful to the progress of the university, and would delay find- 
ing a heart warm enough, a brain big enough, and a body strong enough 
to ‘‘carry on’’ the great enterprise dearer to me than life. 


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Now you have come: as I believe, the providential man for the provi- 
dential hour. There is a great content in my heart and I am filled with 
a high hope. You have great gifts, graces, and usefulness tried in the 
furnace of great labors. May you have light and leading, wisdom and 
discretion. I believe you will, by God’s blessing, which you will ever 
seek. 

Bishop Epwin H. HucGuEs 
March—September, 1923 


If we could see all that is involved in the inauguration of a college 
president in any section, we would be deeply impressed. But where the 
interests of a large church, and of a great city, and of literally scores of 
thousands of students are involved, the sense of import is overwhelming. 

Suppose that Jacob Sleeper, Lee Claflin, and Isaac Rich could have 
foreseen the meaning of the inauguration of William Fairfield Warren! 
Could they have endured that advance view of a world-wide influence? 
Later came William II! Then Lemuel Herbert Murlin! All the admin- 
istrations brought on new educational marvels. How strange and good 
it is that all former presidents and all acting presidents are still on earth 
—eager sharers in the glory of this new hour of inauguration. 

Now comes President Daniel L. Marsh. We walk with him over 
the threshold of his presidential duties and place upon him and his 
work all the benedictions that our hearts can pronounce. 


BisHop WILLIAM F. ANDERSON 
January 1, 1925 — February 1, 1926 


Welcome! Hearty welcome to President Daniel L. Marsh, new 
president of Boston University. He answers this challenging call from 
the prime of a virile, vigorous manhood. He has had thorough train- 
ing, large experience; has been tried, tested, and toughened by courag- 
eous grappling with vexatious administrative problems. He has indus- 
try, courage, faith, daring. He is unafraid except of doing wrong. He 
believes in himself, in his cause, in his fellow men, in God. He stands 
for true ideas of culture; for an education that includes the whole man 
in his manifold activities and possibilities. His election will prove the 
uniting of man and the opportunity. Let every man of us stand by 
our new president. Thus victory will be assured for Boston University. 














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